ELI5: What would happen if we put an extremely large smoke bomb on the moon?

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Posted Feb 19, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

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Darkbalmunk•

Nothing you would have a couple issues.

  1. lack of oxygen means no flame which means the smoke bomb does nothing.

  2. There are other types of smoke or dust clouding methods, again no atmosphere and no gravity means the smoke or dust will dissipate quickly the initial velocity will send the particles off into space.

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HardackOP•

I'm sure there's some way you can get it to burn I mean they do have rockets in space maybe some solid oxygen.

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Darkbalmunk•

Yeah compensating for other methods it still dissipates quickly due to the lack of atmosphere and gravity on the moon to hold the particles within the surface of the moon.

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HardackOP•

Do you think it would be so fast that you would not see it or would it pool and fade or leave a contrail like ring around the earth.

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Darkbalmunk•

I would think it would just rapidly blow away as soon as the smoke is generated kinda like someone blowing at a incense stick.

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