An Italian-led team of researchers says the cave could be used to shelter future astronauts and explorers.

Scientists have confirmed an underground cave on the moon not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago and suspect there are hundreds more that could house future astronauts.

An Italian-led team of scientists on Monday said there is evidence of a sizeable cave, accessible from the deepest known pit on the moon. The cave is located at the Sea of Tranquility, 400km (250 miles) from Apollo 11’s landing site.

Scientists find underground cave on moon
An Italian-led team of researchers says the cave could be used to shelter future astronauts and explorers.

Scientists have confirmed an underground cave on the moon not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago and suspect there are hundreds more that could house future astronauts.

An Italian-led team of scientists on Monday said there is evidence of a sizeable cave, accessible from the deepest known pit on the moon. The cave is located at the Sea of Tranquility, 400km (250 miles) from Apollo 11’s landing site.

The scientists said the pit, like more than 200 others discovered on the moon, was created by the collapse of a lava tube.

“Lunar caves have remained a mystery for over 50 years. So it was exciting to be able to finally prove the existence” of one, Leonardo Carrer and Lorenzo Bruzzone of the University of Trento told The Associated Press in an email.

Writing in the journal Nature Astronomy, the researchers added that they analysed radar measurements by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and compared the results with lava tubes on Earth.

The radar data reveal only the initial part of the underground cavity, according to the scientists. They estimated it is at least 40 metres (130ft) wide and tens of yards (metres) long, probably more.

Moreover, most of the pits seem to be located in the moon’s ancient lava plains, according to the scientists. There also could be some at the moon’s south pole, the planned location of NASA’s astronaut landings later this decade.

Permanently shadowed craters there are believed to hold frozen water that could provide drinking water and rocket fuel.

During NASA’s Apollo programme, 12 astronauts landed on the moon, beginning with Armstrong and Aldrin on July 20, 1969.

The findings also suggested there could be hundreds of pits on the moon and thousands of lava tubes.

The team of researchers said such places could then serve as a natural shelter for astronauts, protecting them from cosmic rays and solar radiation as well as from micrometeorite strikes.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/15/scientists-find-underground-cave-on-moon

Why can't I create topic in science section?

Great discovery by scientists...

Possibility of humans living on the moon in the future is a great prospect.


By the way lava tubes are natural tunnels formed from flow and solidification of molten lava billion of years ago when the moon was vocanically active.

Science is interesting!

Wetin Una dey find for moon again?

Picture or idonbilivit.... Moon landing is a hoax... There's nothing of such... Before you start calling me names, do your proper research.

Una go soon find underground cave to HELL 🤣🤣🤣

That thing wey una dey look for,una go soon see am. Make una no run ooo

brain54:
Great discovery by scientists...

Possibility of humans living on the moon in the future is a great prospect.


By the way lava tubes are natural tunnels formed from flow and solidification of molten lava billion of years ago when the moon was vocanically active.

Science is interesting!

There's nothing scientific about a cave in a satellite. It's all white superstition.

Broveens42:


There's nothing scientific about a cave in a satellite. It's all white superstition.

Okay...

Thank you for the information sir.

Much appreciated!

The scientists said the pit, like more than 200 others discovered on the moon, was created by the collapse of a lava tube.

Hmmm! I for fear o! Abi cavemen don exist or are habitats there. Life is mysterious than we perceive sha.

How many times will they find this BULLSHlT?

Any need?

hmmmm

COMRADES are speechless, I saw this news somewhere I thought it was a fiction

Anyway let's see how it goes

Hmmm....not again

One day one day una go meet aliens

Lobatan, Elon Musk dan build cave for moon

I will take them serious when they find McDonalds in the sun! Nonsense

Mtcheeew, let them find whatever

You will never find Hellinues and his ilks in this section
Awon Bateria.

This is getting interesting

GreenxGreen:
Una go soon find underground cave to HELL 🤣🤣🤣

abi o

Make dem quick do d shelter abeg, mak i leave 9ja 4 tinubu

Something the ngwaland dug long ago..dey play.

CorrectionFLuid:
Why can't I create topic in science section?

Because you were banned

God Is great





meanwhile I heard someone committed suic.de some where,I am sure hunger will be part of the reason.

Oyibo people and iwakuwa (nonsense)

Oyibo and looky looky are 5&6

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