Posted by: MarcAFK
« on: April 26, 2017, 09:51:04 PM »
Another issue is that as the moon hasn't ever had an oxygen rich atmosphere it contains less oxidized iron, which will start to rust as soon as you start pumping in air, it will slightly increase the quantity of oxygen needed, it mostly depends on the quantity of lunar dust, and how much of it is iron based. It wouldn't be large by aurora standards in any event.
The entire current atmosphere of the moon is somewhere like a trillionth of an atmosphere and contains about 10-25 tons of gas. Lunar dust might only be 50,000 tons in total, and it's mostly silicates in any event.
Heating and pressurizing the atmosphere up should remove the electrostatic cling that plagued Apollo so much.