How Much Damage Will Lunar Landings Do to Other Lunar Landers?

When lunar landers reach the Moon, they will kick up a cloud of lunar regolith. Because of the lack of atmosphere and low gravity, some of that regolith will be hurled into orbit and cause a hazard for future lunar landers. Each landing will create a plume that future landers will need to route around, and eventually, the lunar surface will be unreachable until the debris returns to the surface. In. a new paper, researchers attempt to calculate how much of a risk this will be to our lunar landing efforts.

http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12234