Eric loves to explore lava tubes on the moon and Mars.
On Mars, lava tubes are a great place to start human settlements. Mars has a thin atmosphere that lets way too much harmful radiation hit the surface.
But putting your tender skin beneath a few meters of rock and soil solves that problem nicely.
It costs a lot of time and energy to dig a tunnel for a habitat, but a lava tube is a ready-made tunnel for free!
Also called a pyroduct, lava tubes are formed when flowing lava from a volcanic vent moves beneath the already-hardened surface of a lava flow. If lava in the tube empties out, it will leave a tunnel. We find them all over the solar system wherever we find volcanoes.
More about lava tubes here: https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/lava-tubes-natures-shelters-for-cosmic-colonization/
But putting your tender skin beneath a few meters of rock and soil solves that problem nicely.
It costs a lot of time and energy to dig a tunnel for a habitat, but a lava tube is a ready-made tunnel for free!
Also called a pyroduct, lava tubes are formed when flowing lava from a volcanic vent moves beneath the already-hardened surface of a lava flow. If lava in the tube empties out, it will leave a tunnel. We find them all over the solar system wherever we find volcanoes.
More about lava tubes here: https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/lava-tubes-natures-shelters-for-cosmic-colonization/
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.