Published in PLOS Climate · View the paper (DOI)
Dust from the Moon could be fired into space to attentuate the Sun's rays, a potential solution for climate change mitigation. The study, published in PLOS Climate, calculates the feasibility of this approach.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- In an astro-engineering approach to climate change mitigation, researchers calculate how dust could be fired from the Moon into space to attentuate the Sun's rays PLOS · Feb 8, 2023 · first to report
- Space dust as Earth’s sun shield University of Utah · Feb 8, 2023
- Could space dust help protect the earth from climate change? Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian · Feb 8, 2023