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Study finds lava tubes on Moon and Mars could act as shield from cosmic and solar radiation – The Indian Express
Because of the size of the lava tubes, they can be used as potential settlements due to the “protected and stable environments of lava tubes” and can accommodate a large number of astronauts
By: Tech Desk | New Delhi |
Updated: August 18, 2020 3:43:01 pm
Lava tubes (Source: University of Bologna)Planet Earth has several lava tubes, also called as volcanic caves that act as “channels of rivers of lava that at some earlier time flowed downslope from a volcanic vent or fissure”. Like Earth, Mars and Moon also have these lava tubes on their subsurface. However, according to a recent study published in the international journal Earth-Science Reviews, these tubes are 100 and 1,000 bigg…
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