Huge Asteroid Wrapped In Thick Dust Blanket

[Moontanman]

Huge Asteroid Wrapped in Thick Dust Blanket

 

 

 

If astronauts ever visit the asteroid Lutetia, they may have to strap on snowshoes to avoid sinking into its nearly half-mile-thick layer of dust.

 

Dusty debris shrouds the huge asteroid to a depth of at least 2,000 feet (600 meters), scientists have calculated. The dust probably resembles the regolith found on the moon, and it's a result of the intense cosmic pummeling Lutetia has endured from other space rocks since the birth of the solar system.

 

 

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid-lutetia-dust-blanket-101005.html