Cave discovered on Moon "could be home for humans"

[Ursa major]

From the BBC website:

Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon. [...] Lorenzo Bruzzone and Leonardo Carrer at the University of Trento in Italy found the cave by using radar to penetrate the opening of a pit on a rocky plain called the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is visible to the naked eye from Earth, and is also where Apollo 11 landed in 1969. The cave has a skylight on the Moon’s surface, leading down to vertical and overhanging walls, and a sloping floor that might extend further underground.

It was made millions or billions of years ago when lava flowed on the Moon, creating a tunnel through the rock. The closest equivalent on Earth would be the volcanic caves in Lanzarote, Spain, Prof Carrer explains, adding that the researchers visited those caves as part of their work.

 

[BAYLOR]

It's just not a good hospitable place for people because it lacks the basic essential basic that people need to survive . There's no a golf course, no swimming pool, no fast food take out restaurants , no pubs , not even so much as a wet bar . And any place that can't even support a Walmart is just unlivable

 

[JimC]

That particular structure has been known for several years, isn't visible to the naked eye (at least not from Earth), and isn't all that close to the Apollo 11 site.

That said, it is well worth a visit.

 

[Astro Pen]

Er, Houston, we have a problem, you might wanna see this.

 

[Swank]

Apparently this kind of lava tube is not supposed to be rare on the moon. It seems like it would almost easy to seal one and inflate a section to 5 psi of oxygen. Plastic the thickness of a bread bag would work.

 

[reiver33]

Don’t go inside, it’s an Exogorth!

 

[Robert Zwilling]

The Irony Of Modern Day Space Travel: Back To The Past

There are more articles appearing about living in caves on the Moon, maybe even on Mars. Its becoming a popular topic.
It took 55 years to travel 239,000 miles for the second time round. That's a half mile per hour. That's walking speed. About what you would expect for ancient cave men cautiously exploring a new route, scouting out a new location.

So here we are on the Moon again, all suited up and nowhere to go. Retiring for the day, the choice of convenience, safety, a prebuilt shelter made of stone. It's cave man time, back to the past where it all started. Living in caves. The first stone house. Travel all that way by spaceship and end up living in a cave. Starting life all over again. Back to basics. Somehow some things just don't change.

Pits are formed on the many lava plains on the Moon by collapsing lava tubes. There are likely thousands of lava tubes on or near the surface of the Moon. The lava tube that started the future land rush is around 130 wide, and tens of yards long, and probably longer than that. Plenty of room for underground parking. Now that we know what the remote scanning satellite signature image looks like, we can send a satellite or two up to the Moon to look for more lava tubes that represent future colony locations.

Art imitates life. One of the last modern movies made about Mars with a somewhat breathable atmosphere was Robinson Caruso On Mars in 1964. The atmosphere was out, but he was living in a cave. There was water far back in the cave, which could just possibly be true for a real cave on Mars that goes deep underground. Could even be some kind of plant life growing in the water.

 

[Ursa major]

That's a half mile per hour. That's walking speed.

It's not that much faster than shuffling speed.

 

[BAYLOR]

Er, Houston, we have a problem, you might wanna see this.
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The Bull People of the Moon who preceded the Bat People by millions of years .