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From the Apollo missions we know that the moon is covered withdust. Where does it come from? Is it from the erosion of the moonrock? By what? Or by accretion of dust from space? Which comes fromwhere?

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As Ravachol quoted the material on the surface of the moon is mainly the result of billions of years of micrometeorite impacts onto larger rocks on the lunar surface We call this material regolith as opposed to soil because the latter term is used in geology to indicate a more biologicalorganic origin Regolith should technically    See Answer
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