newscientist.com - 10/23/2009
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Yes, a mission should be designed to send a remotely operated semi-autonomous crawler down there to map it. Would need to have a long-lasting power source though, that place could be huge. Might make more sense to send a squadron of smaller crawlers. A challenge certainly but it need not be ...
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Confirmation Of Underground Caves On The Moon [Lunar Colony]
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... drained away billions of years ago. We may not be able to explore this tube any time soon, however. Like lava tubes on Earth, it's possible that this tunnel is filled with debris and would require excavation to unblock. What's important, however, is that we now have solid evidence that lava tubes exist beneath the Moon's surface, which means Moon real estate just got a little more appealing. Unless, of course, Moon natives already live there. via New Scientist (Thanks, Kle!)
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Is This A 'Skylight' Leading To A Lunar Cave?
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... in his 1976 novel called The Phantom of Kansas . "The Kansas disneyland was one of the newer ones, and one of the largest. It is a hollowed-out cylinder twenty kilometers beneath Clavius. It measures two hundred and fifty kilometers in diameter and is five kilometers high. The curvature of the floor is consistent with Old Earth so the horizon is terrifyingly far away. Only the gravity is Lunar." From New Scientist . Scroll down for more stories in the same category. (Story submitted 10/25/2009) | ...
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