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Joan Collins is certainly enjoying summer as she recently shared a video from her holiday to her Instagram, featuring her in a lilac patterned kaftan over a white swimsuit. She accessorized the outfit with a white beach hat, statement jewelry and pair of dark sunglasses. Joan completed the look with white sandals as she posed beside her friend, who opted for a black and white floral print dress. Joan looked relaxed as she showed off her beautiful legs, proving that age is just a number and fun never stops. Fans react to Joan Collins’ leggy snap   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Joan Collins (@joancollinsdbe) Reminiscing on her holiday so far, Joan shared a compilation of highlights with friends and fans could not get enough of her fabulous living. “Gosh dear Joan you are having tooooo much fun..,” someone wrote. “Fabulous as ever…what a fantastic bunch of friends life looks great,” another commented. RELATED: Fans Admire 91-Year-Old Joan Collins As She Rocks A Plunging Swimsuit While Dancing In Pool The clip included snaps of Joan in different beach coverups, posing with her companions, plus a moment in the pool where they danced to Pharrell William’s hit single, “Happy.” “Definitely fun times and everyone looked great! You my dear Dame was the fairest of all!” a follower gushed. Instagram Fun never stops Despite turning 91 in May, Joan has no plans to slow down on living life and advancing her career, as she recently released her latest memoir, Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends. She admitted to her love for working, explaining that being busy keeps her happy. Instagram Staying active as a nonagenarian means Joan lives a healthy lifestyle that enables her to move around and maintain her good looks. To keep the weight off, she controls her food portions and does a lot of swimming exercises. She also follows a strict skincare routine which includes lots of sunscreen during the day and her moisturizing night cream. Click for next Article The post 91-Year-Old Joan Collins Shows Off Toned Legs In Gorgeous Beachwear appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

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Water purification is a big business on Earth. Companies offer everything from desalination to providing just the right pH level for drinking water. But on the Moon, there won’t be a similar technical infrastructure to support the astronauts attempting to make a permanent base there. And there’s one particular material that will make water purification even harder – Moon dust.  We’ve reported plenty of times about the health problems caused by the lunar regolith, so it seems apparent that you don’t want to drink it. Even more so, the abrasive dust can cause issues with seals, such as those used in electrolyzers to create rocket fuel out of in-situ water resources. It can even adversely affect water purification equipment itself.  Unfortunately, this contamination is inevitable. Lunar dust is far too adhesive and electrostatically charged to be kept completely separate from the machinery that would recycle or purify the water. So, a group of researchers from DLR in Germany decided to test what would happen if you intentionally dissolved lunar regolith. Fraser interviews Dr. Kevin Cannon, an expert in lunar dust mitigation. The short answer is, unsurprisingly, nothing good. Dissolved lunar regolith causes pH, turbidity, and aluminum concentrations all exceed World Health Organization benchmarks for safe drinking water. This happened even with short exposure times (2 minutes) and static pH values, as they used a 5.5 pH buffer in part of the experiments.  They didn’t use actual lunar dust for these experiments, but a simulant modeled on the regolith returned during the Apollo 16 mission. It mimics the regolith that is thought to be most similar to the Artemis landing sites. In addition to the pH changes and the amount of exposure time (which went up to 72 hours), the authors also varied the amount of dissolved oxygen in the system and the particle size of the simulant. Those negative results occurred for every test variation, no matter what combination of the four control variables was used. Ultimately, that means engineers will have to devise a system to filter the water from these deposits before it can be recycled into the overall water system. After taking the first boot print photo, astronaut Buzz Aldrin moved closer to the little rock and took this second shot. His boot was already completely covered in adhesive dust.Credit: NASA The paper explored some potential solutions for that water purification system. Each of the limits that were violated requires its purification methodology. In the author’s estimation, lowering the turbidity is the first requirement. To do so, they suggest doing standard filtration or allowing the dust particles to settle.  Removing aluminum is next in importance, with another experiment showing that plants that grew in lunar soil showed signs of aluminum toxicity. Additional ions, including calcium, iron, and manganese, also need to be removed, as they were above acceptable levels in some test batches but not all. Removing these ions would require a reverse osmosis process or ion exchange. Ion removal is vital to a fully functional electrolyzer system as well.  The authors seemed to be ultimately going after a platform to test and validate water purification processes for future lunar exploration missions. Given the results from their experimentation, there will undoubtedly be future rounds of testing and plenty of technology development to work on solving these technical challenges. Ultimately, astronauts will have to drink water on the Moon – and it won’t be coming just from bottles from Earth. Learn More:Freer, Pesch, & Zabel – Experimental study to characterize water contaminated by lunar dustUT – The Moon Is ToxicUT – Astronauts Will Be Tracking Dust Into the Lunar Gateway. Is This a Problem?UT – Lunar Dust is Still One of The Biggest Challenges Facing Moon Exploration Lead Image:Turbidity samples of some of the dissolved regolith.Credit – Freer, Pesch, & Zabel The post Moon Dust Could Contaminate Lunar Explorers’ Water Supply appeared first on Universe Today.

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