Summary
The moon has been added to the World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) list of threatened heritage sites for the first time due to risks from commercial and governmental lunar activities.
The WMF highlights concerns about looting and damage to artefacts from Apollo missions, such as Neil Armstrong’s footprints and objects left on the moon.
WMF calls for international protocols to protect lunar heritage as private space tourism and missions increase.
The 2024 list also includes sites in conflict zones and areas endangered by climate change or unsustainable tourism.
I don’t get what you’re missing here. An atmosphere is the trapping of gasses, the moon doesn’t have enough gravity, they will disperse into space very quickly. It’s why the ISS doesn’t have it’s own atmosphere and if they pumped out smoke from that thing it would drift into space, not from a smog cloud around them.