They're worried about sputtering on the LADEE?
Shouldn't this be flagged as NSFW?
Solar winds and plasma storms are "sandblasting" the Moon, according to top NASA boffins, causing large amounts of lunar surface material to be blown off into space. The new discoveries come to us from simulations conducted by NASA's Dynamic Response of the Environment At the Moon (DREAM) team. In particular the DREAMers …
I'm sure I read a while back something regarding the ease at which we could put small nuclear powered units at the Martian poles to provide said missing magnetic field, as a first step to potential terraforming.
I think the suggestion was that this should be protection enough to maintain a thin atmosphere (from cooking rocks like 'Robinson Crusoe in Space'?!) despite the lower gravity being a substantial cause of atmospheric loss.
Where in the article does it present this phenomenon as a problem.
To me it seem like the scientist think this phenomenon provides an opportunity to collect more data about the moon using a mission that is already planned to launch in the in near future.
No problems for us seem to have been mention in the article.