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![]() | On 30 January 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved to Lunar soil. The result of the discussion was Moved back to Lunar soil. |
This is a very simple starting point for an article on Lunar Soil. Hopefully, over time, enough information will be accumulated here, and make this article useful as a resource regarding lunar soil and its properties. This stub was created in 5 minutes, but a good accumulation of facts and knowledge will only result from editing over an extended period of time. Feel free to make any and all corrections - including complete revision of anything written - if it will result in a higher level of accuracy and usefulness.
Despite the simple title, Lunar Soil is a topic which covers fairly wide range of information. Future subsections should include:
1. Origin of Lunar Soil 2. Composition of Lunar Soil 3. Mining and Processing of Lunar Soil 4. Engineering Challenge Posed By Lunar Soil - a place for the current knowledge of Engr challenges of lunar soil (this will not be a speculative section; instead it will focus on existing knowledge from legitimate sources) 4.1. Civil Engineering: lunar soil properties differ from those of Earth soil, and all future structures built on the Moon depend on concrete knowledge of its soil 4.2. Mechanical Engineering: Moon's surface is covered by a layer of extremely fine, electrically charged dust - the lunar regolith; Any mechanisms operating on the Moon will have to be safe from the effects of that dust settling on moving parts
This is just a tentative index of topics which should be covered by the fully developed article.
What I started as a very bad draft in 2006 has been edited so nicely, it is actually pleasant to read. It still misses important information, but what a change. I'm humbled by al the editing that everybody contributed to my very bad draft. It's so cool to see :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.175.42 (talk) 03:41, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
There's minor vandalism on this article regarding the bootpring picture.
The article needs a table of the chemical constituents of the soil. Is there phosphorus in the soil? --193.166.104.100 (talk) 14:31, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Lunar regolith/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
*Expand on soil mechanics section topics w/ intext citations.--Paleorthid (talk) 17:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC) |
Last edited at 17:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 22:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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The change away from the term 'soil' seems a good one, and obvious once someone has pointed it out. But Dirt doesn't fit either. What is a good alternative? Randy Kryn (talk) 19:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved back to Lunar soil. (non-admin closure) Vpab15 (talk) 19:46, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Lunar dirt → Lunar soil – this was hastily moved from "Lunar soil" to "Lunar dirt." By convention, lunar regolith is called "lunar soil" in the English language (19,900 results in Google Scholar) and not "lunar dirt" (98 results in Google Scholar). Technical arguments in favor of calling it lunar dirt because it lacks biological activity are factually true, but irrelevant, because that's how the terminology is used outside of Wikipedia. WP:COMMONNAME etc. Geogene (talk) 18:39, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
18:53, 25 January 2021 Lajoswinkler talk contribs block m 22,934 bytes 0 Lajoswinkler moved page Lunar soil to Lunar dirt: "soil" is defined as a mixture of biogenic organic material, organisms and dirt and is therefore present only on Earth. The Moon has no soil. This has been established long ago. https://www.britannica.com/science/regolith
This attempt to correct the article title shows no understanding of the issues. Andrewa (talk) 02:32, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) PadFoot (talk) 10:08, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Lunar soil → Lunar regolith – "Lunar regolith" is a much more accurate common term to refer to this specific Lunar surface material, and is generally a more favoured search term than "lunar soil" per google trends. The current title also unintentionally obscures this from pages like regolith, which discuss the concept more broadly that's being applied here. As others pointed out in the last move that was made, it's the more accurate term to use for this topic. I'm also requesting the same move for Martian soil. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 08:02, 27 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 16:10, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
I could be a little biased here as a regolith specialist, but I've basically never encountered consistent use of "soil" here outside of either much older papers or some more general public conversations, where regolith is still more common (and this seems to be backed up by google trends), and both articles accidentally distinguish the Lunar and Martian surfaces from the main regolith article. I would have just done it but there was a recent rename discussion on Lunar soil after someone renamed it Lunar dirt, so I didn't want to just plow ahead.
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