Lunar Lava Tubes Could Protect Astronauts

Lunar Lava Tubes Could Protect Astronauts

Lunar Shelter: Moon Caves Could Protect Astronauts
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com
http://www.space.com/32795-moon-lava-tubes-protect-astronauts.html

Scientists May Have Spotted Buried Lava Tubes on
the Moon by Nadia Drake , No Place Like Home (Blog)
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/25/scientists-may-have-spotted-buried-lava-tubes-on-the-moon/

Marius Hills Pit - Lava Tube Skylight?
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
NAC M114328462R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/202

The Marius Hills pit is a possible skylight in a lava
tube in an ancient volcanic region of the Moon called
the Marius Hills. This LROC image is the highest
resolution image of the pit to date. Image width is
500 meters, pixel width is 0.5 meters,
NAC M114328462R [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/uploads/LROCiotw/M114328462R_thumb.png

Theoretical study suggests huge lava tubes could exist
on moon, University of Perdue,
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q1/theoretical-study-suggests-huge-lava-tubes-could-exist-on-moon.html

Yours,

Paul H.