• Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has used its brush tool for the first time to sweep dust off the surface of a rock.

    BBC: Curiosity Mars rover deploys its rock brush

  • In 1994, as the Mandela government came to power, Motsepe left the law firm and struck out on his own, hoping to build a business contracting low-level labor like sweeping, where workers use brooms to glean gold dust from the rock surface after industrial mining crews have done their work.

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  • Brushing the surface of rocks with Curiosity's dust removal tool first enables the arm-held hand lens camera and X-ray spectrometer, in particular, to see features that might otherwise be obstructed.

    BBC: Curiosity Mars rover deploys its rock brush

  • The caesium finds its way into tiny pores on the surface, and the only way to remove it effectively is to grind off the surface, a difficult procedure which can create contaminated dust.

    BBC: Daunting challenge of Fukushima clean-up

  • Puffs of dust were evidence of the ball breaking the surface of the pitch as it landed - and batting last should be awkward.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • Since Eros's gravity is so small (a person on its surface would weigh only a few dozen grams), this dust probably could not have fallen into the craters in the way that it would on a heavier body.

    ECONOMIST: Eros

  • When I stepped onto the moon's surface, it felt cushiony, not gravelly thanks to all the dust.

    WSJ: Buzz Aldrin on His Lunar Home, the Eagle

  • The extent of the damage is only beginning to come to the surface, but one thing is for sure: by the time all the dust settles, Americans will have a very different view about our financial system and the risks associated with excessive credit.

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  • Enveloped in a smog of coal dust that softens the sunlight into a hazy glow is the An Tai Bao surface coal mine.

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  • That's why scientists are so interested in water at poles, and the fact Moon dust works well with microwaves and could theoretically be used to make a paved surface if you created roads.

    BBC: 3D printers could use Moon rocks, say scientists

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