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Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Gsus4 to c/[email protected]
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"Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies"

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Moon has different challenges though. One being no erosion, moon dust is abrasive af.

[–] Gsus4 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yea, like a giant pile of statically charged asbestos that are hard to clean away.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

So, together it sounds like you guys are saying that moon dust is "coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

dammit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Listen, I've been in an asteroid's cave in Outer Wilds and I didn't fucking like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hey, at least there aren't any fish there, right? 😅