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Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals

8 August 2026 at 18:00
Mars dust β€” NASA/JPL-Caltech, public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

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. β€” Read the rest

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