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Newly Discovered Moon Caves Could One Day House Astronauts
Analysis of lunar imagery has ended a longstanding debate over whether there are accessible underground areas on the Moon; an emptied lava tube in the Sea of Tranquility is of particular interest.
This week, an international research team led by the University of Trento in Italy published a study in Nature Astronomy showing evidence of accessible areas beneath the lunar surface. Based on the images, the researchers were able to reveal, hidden in the region of the Sea of Tranquility, an emptied lava tube that could one day be accessible to astronauts. “We analyzed these images with complex signal processing technologies recently developed in our laboratory and found that part of the radar reflections from an area of the Sea of Tranquility can be attributed to an underground conduit,” says Bruzzone.
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