“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”
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In fact, we might be able live there.
“Lunar cave systems have been proposed as great places to site future crewed bases, as the thick cave ceiling of rock is ideal to protect people and infrastructure from the wildly varying day-night lunar surface temperature variations and to block high energy radiation which bathes the lunar surface,” said Katherine Joy, professor in earth sciences at the University of Manchester. “However, we currently know very little about the underground structures below these pit entrances.”
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This is so exciting because it sounds doable. Unlike Mars, which is a tragedy awaiting the overconfident.
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