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There isn't enough evidence yet to categorically blame the dust for the poorer performance of the moon's retroreflectors, said Dr. Mazarico, and more observations are being collected. But Dr. [Tom] Murphy, [a physicist at the University of California, San Diego] and other scientists said the new findings were helping build the case.
Electrostatically lofted lunar dust has been idenified a number of years ago so it seems likely some of that would deposit on the surface of the experiments.


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