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Washington State University student, Ian Wells, will be presenting a solution to cleaning lunar dust out of spacesuits to NASA.
It may seem like a minor problem, however, it’s an issue that NASA has faced for years.
In WSU’s HYPER Lab, Professor Jake Leachman tested the Leidenfrost Effect and discovered that liquid nitrogen can pick up lunar dust.
Prior to this, Wells created a camera with the ability to capture the flow of fluids. The camera he built worked well enough that Leachman asked him to try it out in the HYPER lab, taking images of the liquid nitrogen picking up dust.