If you pack soil in a vacuum bag and evacuate the air from the bag, you will find that the soil has hardened and it is almost impossible to make an imprint in it. Either we went to the moon and the physical environment differs from the textbook statements or the photos were faked. The issue of clear prints on dry, airless moon needs to be answered, yet NASA ignores such questions. We may be mistaken in our assessment from use of common sense, but please tell us what we our omitting in our analysis of the given facts. I am still trying to find a chemical analysis of the lunar soil.
Mass spectrometers seem to indicate the accumulation of water-ice around the lunars poles.
Soil mechanics is the study of the mechanical properties of soils and the way that these properties affect human activities. Soil mechanics studies were performed on all six of the Apollo Moon landings. The goals of these studies were both to improve our scientific knowledge about the properties of lunar soil and provide the engineering knowledge needed to plan and perform lunar surface activities. Soil mechanics studies took a variety of forms. These included crew commentary while collecting geologic samples and deploying experiments and postmission analysis of photography of these activities.