Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
A NASA panel is setting a Mars dust exposure limit, drawing on what 12 Apollo moonwalkers learned.
NASA created a Martian Dust Limit Working Group this year to figure out how much Mars dust a person can safely breathe, and Leonard David reports for Space.com on the dust hazard and how future astronauts might deal with it. The panel included toxicologists, volcanologists, geologists, and h…
