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Lava tubes on Mars and the Moon are so wide they can host planetary bases

from University of Bologna via ScienceDaily

Lava tubes on Mars and the Moon are so wide they can host planetary bases University of Bologna via ScienceDaily Researchers at the Universities of Bologna and Padua studied the subsurface cavities that lava created underground on Mars and the Moon. These cavities can shield from cosmic radiation. The international journal Earth-Science Reviews published a paper offering an overview of the lava tubes (pyroducts) on Earth, eventually providing an estimate of the (greater) size of their lunar and Martian counterparts. READ MORE

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