Where is all the lunar dust on the moon?

Question

Millions of years and yet the lunar module didn't sink? Didn't scientists create a huge disc on the bottom just for that purpose? What was the out come?

excuse me, discs not a disc.

Answer 1

Actually it was not millions of years, but billions (the moon is estimated to be just a slight bit younger than the earth, at 4.6 billion years).

However, the accumulation is not as fast as you might think. I'll quote a site on a paper by Snelling and Rush on this topic:

"Valid estimates of the meteoritic dust influx to the earth in tons/year, as obtained by Snelling and Rush from the professional literature, range from 450 to 460,000. Estimates for the moon range from 4000 to 19,900. Using 10,000 tons/year as a representative estimate, Snelling and Rush note that about one billion years would be required to accumulate a 2 cm thick dust layer over the lunar surface. The Apollo astronauts reported lunar surface dust thickness ranging between 0.3 cm and 7.6 cm. So Snelling and Rush can say that "even with a meteoritic dust influx rate of 300 times the present figure, we can still comfortably account for the quantity of meteoritic dust found in the lunar regolith and the loose surface layer over the evolutionists' timescale" (p. 38)."

Answer 2

I remember the day the Eagle landed on the moon '69.. There was some fear it just might sink upon landing..Into a dusty vortex of nothing.. But it was hard (rocky) and everything is sitting the way it was left. So I understand.