"Moon dirt"

The moon is made of green cheese, as I recall from childhood days......

Short story- In my day job, I curate display cases among other things. We recently installed cases in the new football wing of a D1 University. And one of the items was a football that went to space on the shuttle. One of the guys from ANOTHER vendor was carrying it around.

"Don't lose that!" I told him.

"What's it worth?".

"Well, you could spend $ 25 billion to get them another one".

Oh and by the way,  I AM gonna make it a few shades darker now.  :)

Whoah! WHOOP...WHOOP!  Nerd Alert!  Just kidding guys.  I have no idea what you're talking about, but I get the gist by the picture.  I started out trying to get avery axact detail right (yes I'm another perfectionist by nature).  But at this point, close enough is good enough.  I have to at least get 1 model done!! (out of 5 in the works).  I appreciate EVERYONE'S tips!

Well, I prefer REAL moon dirt of course, but I think the chalk (or plaster) option is probably the best as you can break that stuff down into smaller pieces as needed.

Might want to look at tile grout.

Well yes and no. The moon has an albedo factor of 0.12, but that's an average. In other words; half moon. There's also a bunch of other variables such as incidence of reflection to the observer on earth, all giving a variable of up to 50%. So an .17 albedo is possible- wet dirt and grass. But certainly not like white powder.

Earth is a nice .35 on account of our clouds.

Anyone remember the Vangelis album "Albedo 039"?

To Orbit!

Thanks guys!  Those are the exact ideas I was looking for!  I'm gonna do some experimenting.

@mitsdude:  Yah, sorry if its a repeat.  I put in several searches with "0 results found" and after the first 10 pages of posts I got weary and lost patience.  :)

@GMorrison:  Thats a good one!  I would have never thought of that.

Yeah, been there with the search results. Lots of duplicate/false hits. Didn't intend my response to be a thread crap.

Lunar albedo (fractional reflectivity) is only about 0.12 – in other words, asphalt.

Thanks guys!  Those are the exact ideas I was looking for!  I'm gonna do some experimenting.

@mitsdude:  Yah, sorry if its a repeat.  I put in several searches with "0 results found" and after the first 10 pages of posts I got weary and lost patience.  :)

@GMorrison:  Thats a good one!  I would have never thought of that.

Don't use anything from the kitchen. If the mice don't eat it first, it'll turn yellow.

I'm 100% sure there is at least one other discussion on here about this exact topic. Maybe 1 1/2 to 2 years ago?

Use regular Portland cement as that is what the lunar surface looks like.

Sidewalk or regular writing chalk. Chopped or ground up.