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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

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PLOS

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

image: Simulated stream of dust launched between Earth and the Sun. This dust cloud is shown as it crosses the disk of the Sun, viewed from Earth. Streams like this one, including those launched from the Moon’s surface, can act as a temporary sun shade. view more 

Credit: Ben Bromley, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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.

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000133

Article Title: Dust as a solar shield      

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The University of Utah Office of Undergraduate Research provided a stipend to co-author SHK through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (http://our.utah.edu/research-scholarship-opportunities/urop/). The funder(s) had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Journal

PLOS Climate

DOI

10.1371/journal.pclm.0000133

Article Title

Dust as a solar shield

Article Publication Date

8-Feb-2023

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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