The Smell Of Moondust

"Moondust. 'I wish I could send you some,' says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff."

Feel it—it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.

Taste it—"not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.

Sniff it—"it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.

How do you sniff moondust?"

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Pow! Right To The Moon

"Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden ice water. The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations."

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