Sssshh don't go telling Nicholas Cage where our national treasures are kept.
This is great even from the standpoint of wanting to go to Mars since it means setting up camp in a cave is now possible to try out much closer to home first. Kinda like sleeping in a tent in your backyard first. Makes the moon that much more exciting to know there's caves too.
They've found hitting it with microwaves sinters it together pretty readily, so that would be the likely way they'd deal with it. Apparently also an effective way of making bricks out of it!
“Lunar cave systems have been proposed as great places to site future crewed bases, as the thick cave ceiling of rock is ideal to protect people and infrastructure from the wildly varying day-night lunar surface temperature variations and to block high energy radiation which bathes the lunar surface,” said Katherine Joy, professor in earth sciences at the University of Manchester. “However, we currently know very little about the underground structures below these pit entrances.”
This would be especially nice if water ice was discovered inside
I mean, lunar water exists...they just have to figure out if it flows when the moon faces the sun for 14 days at a time and gathers in these lava tunnels or stays in the form of beads
It's where they keep all the cheese.
this is closer, though https://modernfarmer.com/2022/05/cheese-caves-missouri/ :D
Sssshh don't go telling Nicholas Cage where our national treasures are kept.
This is great even from the standpoint of wanting to go to Mars since it means setting up camp in a cave is now possible to try out much closer to home first. Kinda like sleeping in a tent in your backyard first. Makes the moon that much more exciting to know there's caves too.
@technology@lemmy.world
Moon has different challenges though. One being no erosion, moon dust is abrasive af.
Yea, like a giant pile of statically charged asbestos that are hard to clean away.
So, together it sounds like you guys are saying that moon dust is "coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere."
dammit
They've found hitting it with microwaves sinters it together pretty readily, so that would be the likely way they'd deal with it. Apparently also an effective way of making bricks out of it!
Niice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352710224007617?via%3Dihub
Listen, I've been in an asteroid's cave in Outer Wilds and I didn't fucking like it.
Hey, at least there aren't any fish there, right? 😅
In fact, we might be able live there.
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This is so exciting because it sounds doable. Unlike Mars, which is a tragedy awaiting the overconfident.
a tragedy awaiting the overconfidenta fun destination for billionaire excursions!We’ll let them work out the kinks first, you just gotta know how to sell it.
A tragedy awaiting the prisoner slaves we send there.
Australia 2.0!
i wonder if the craters ground has 5-15 meters of regolith too?
Just throw it out
No shit there are caves on the moon. Have these scientists never watched The Clangers?
Hear me out...
The Descent but it's on the moon.
Or the game Descent. Although that already took place in space.
Okay I haven't seen that movie, so I was confused cause I could have sworn you visited many moons in the first Descent game.
So many movies to redo.
The Cave...On the Moon
Cave of Forgotten Dreams...On the Moon
The Clan of the Moon Cave Bear
The Notebook, but it's on the moon.
40 year old virgin, but it's on the moon.
Or Dig, which was on an asteroid that became Earth’s second moon.
Shackleton identified, establishing Jamestown now.
I call Moon Marine !
This would be especially nice if water ice was discovered inside
I mean, lunar water exists...they just have to figure out if it flows when the moon faces the sun for 14 days at a time and gathers in these lava tunnels or stays in the form of beads
https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-amounts-of-water-on-the-moon-may-have-just-been-located
one must commend Hergé's research.
to show moon caves in Explorers on the Moon sixteen years before the moon landing in an era without the internet is some freaky stuff.
Finally some good news. The discovery of the Prothean ruins will bring the entire world together.
Got to get to Mars for those
“Get your ass to Mars.”
I know I wouldn't send a manned mission to the moon and NOT try to build a moon base.
We have come so far first roaming the land living in caves then agriculture and science.
Then we went to the moon where we roamed the land and lived in caves.....
Grifters gonna grift.
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey on the Moon
Reject humanity, become Moon mole