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Solar cells made of Moon dust could power up a lunar base

Close-up of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the grey surface of the Moon

Glass for solar cells could be made on the Moon’s surface by melting lunar soil (pictured, embedded with moonwalker Buzz Aldrin’s boot print). Credit: NASA/Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library

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Nature 640, 291 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00971-x

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  1. Ortiz, J. M. C. et al. Device 3, 100747 (2025).

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