China’s lunar rover

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Space weather? I would have bought camera/processing artifact or trick of the light. But space weather? Where did they find this guy? 

The reason the Apollo astronauts suits wore out so quickly was the lunar dust. It was sharp and jagged specifically because there is no means of weathering on the moon to smooth the dust particles down. They are like little knives. The craters are visible from a zillion years ago because there is no weathering. Ever see the American flag waving in the moon breeze?

Solar winds are what they are calling space weather, it is a thing. it carries particles ejected from the sun and has a kentic engery, during solar flares it can reach super sonic speeds.


from the wiki,

The Earth's Moon has no atmosphere or intrinsic magnetic field, and consequently its surface is bombarded with the full solar wind. The Project Apollo missions deployed passive aluminum collectors in an attempt to sample the solar wind, and lunar soil returned for study confirmed that the lunar regolith is enriched in atomic nuclei deposited from the solar wind. These elements may prove useful resources for future lunar colonies.[49]

Solar Wind

and from NASA,

Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface, according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surprisingly large amount of material from the lunar surface, this can be a major method of atmospheric loss for planets like Mars that are unprotected by a global magnetic field.

SOLAR STORMS “SANDBLAST” THE MOON