[BenLurkin]

Extracting Water From the Moon With Basic Home Appliances
by Nancy Atkinson on October 6, 2008

http://www.universetoday.com/19244/extracting-water-from-the-moon-with-basic-home-appliances/

[Larry Lucido]

The opposite of Lunar Monolith?

[cripplecreek]

Moon dirt is mostly pulverized glass. You don’t want to breathe it and would be pretty hard to grow things in.

[JoeProBono]

[SpaceBar]

Depending where sampled, it is shock pulvarized basalt or anorthosite, mixed with microscopic vitric spherules resulting from impact remelt.

[mjp]

The Mysterious Smell of Moondust

[Boogieman]

Oh, you said reg-olith, oops!

[Verginius Rufus]

I had never encountered the word "regolith" before. It really should be spelled "rhegolith" since the first element is from the Greek word rhegos (with an eta), meaning rug or blanket.

[Axenolith]

“Regolith” is, on earth, the layer of roughly weathered and fractured rock lying just over competent bedrock. Above that here is soil, formed through the action of chemical and biological processes.

Without liquid water and an atmosphere on the moon, the only material on the surface is the coarse to ever finely crushed rock derived from whatever type of bedrock is in the vicinity, sprinkled with the detritus of larger local and regional impact activities.