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odinsblog · 6 months ago
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Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon.
At least 100m deep, it could be an ideal place for humans to build a permanent base, they say.
It is just one in probably hundreds of caves hidden in an “underground, undiscovered world”, according to the researchers.
Countries are racing to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, but they will need to protect astronauts from radiation, extreme temperatures, and space weather.
Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut to travel to space, told BBC News that the newly-discovered cave looked like a good place for a base, and suggested humans could potentially be living in lunar pits in 20-30 years.
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But, she said, this cave is so deep that astronauts might need to abseil in and use “jet packs or a lift” to get out.
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.
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spaceexp · 4 months ago
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The three habitable modules currently being developed for the Artemis program's lunar surface outpost
(by AresVIX/reddit)
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apollosbisexualass · 2 years ago
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Just thinking how much it would suck for Lucretia when she was making the Bureau of Balance all static, if the Void Fish decided that that shit was cool and that everyone ought to know about it and just broad casted it all across the universe
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theseworldsareyours · 11 months ago
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Moon Base by Paul Jouard
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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year ago
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art by Pat Rawlings (1980s, 1990s)
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smbhax · 27 days ago
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Illustration by Ed Valigursky
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wiserebeltiger · 1 month ago
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Do billionaires want to destroy earth so that we’re forced to colonize other planets
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misforgotten2 · 1 year ago
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“Hey, where’d everybody go?  Not cool guys!  Guys?"
Aerospace Engineering Magazine - December 1962
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lonestarflight · 11 months ago
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"A large Arecibo-like radio telescope on the Moon uses a crater for structural support. In the background are 2 steerable radio telescopes. Artwork done for NASA by Pat Rawlings, of SAIC."
Date: February 1995
NASA ID: S95-01561
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queststhroughduality · 10 months ago
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chromedream · 9 months ago
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Concept for a crew stateroom on a proposed lunar base by Rick Guidice (1976)
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losterror · 1 year ago
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space station at night
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stone-cold-groove · 8 months ago
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Lunar base Echo.
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battyluciddreamer · 3 months ago
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Random Thought of the Day
Metal detecting on the beach of the Sea of Tranquility!
Since water was discovered on the moon many scientists are hoping to make a lunar base (lack of water was a main limiting factor apparently). A lot of things are theoretically easier in low gravity including building more spacecraft and achieving escape velocity to travel further out into space. Now, to get metal for that everyone is talking about mining but I had a thought:
The Moon gets hit with a lot more meteors/meteorites than Earth. Meteorites that make it through Earth’s atmosphere are classified as “Iron”, “Stony” and “Stony-iron”. While most meteorites are apparently “Stony”, that’s still a lot of potential metal bearing meteorites sitting on or near the surface (if at the bottom of the craters). So potential is there.
I love the image of an astronaut with a Hawaiian shirt and kaki shorts over their spacesuit waving around a metal detector as they stroll about the Moon and that’s just, their job. X’D
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viagginterstellari · 1 year ago
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Moonbase - eSwatini, 2023
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haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted · 10 months ago
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Moon Base by Dennis Davidson
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