The dust layer covering the moon’s surface (the regolith) is the result of meteorite impacts over the whole history of the satellite. The regolith material is a mix of (a) original moon rock fragmented (and occasionally melted) by larger impacts and (b) extraneous material including fragmented meteorites and dust particles. There is some evidence that (a) is the dominant component, as even with the naked eye from the earth one can see that the regolith is not uniform, but varies regionally in composition. This regolith variation must reflect variation in the composition of the underlying solid rocks, as if extraneous material was dominant the regolith would tend to be of uniform composition.
I have read that the main difficulty that lunanauts had with the lunar dust was that it is so sticky, clogging up equipment in a way that they were not accustomed to with earth dust
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