Microwaves are useful for more than just heating up leftovers. They can also make landing pads on other worlds — at least according to research released by a consortium of scientists at the University of Central Florida, Arizona State University, and Cislune, a private company. Their research shows how a combination of sorting the lunar soil and then blasting it with microwaves can create a landing pad for future rockets on the Moon — and save any surrounding buildings from being blasted by 10,000 kilometer-per-hour dust particles.
