Dust Mitigation: Impacts & Opportunities for Science on the Lunar South Pole

Lunar dust will be a feature of all lunar surface science investigations, whether welcome or not. While lunar dust may pose problems for some investigations, it is also the subject of many critical scientific discoveries made since the Apollo days. Dust mitigation, or learning how to work with and around the inevitable dust we will encounter on the surface, is not a new concept. However, new initiatives throughout NASA are underway in an effort to tackle dust mitigation strategically for the Artemis program. Dust mitigation efforts and technologies will enable successful lunar surface science investigations.