Scientists believe they found a cave on the moon | TechCrunch

Moon cave scientists have found what They think is a tunnel on the surface of The Moon and perhaps redefine the next Decade of space startups and development Here's why NASA and everybody else with A rocket wants to build a lasting Presence on the moon you might think That means a dome or a habitat wherever We land but that's actually not a great Idea here's the thing about the Moon it Looks chill but it isn't no ionosphere Means that everything on the surface Gets absolutely baked by solar and Cosmic radiation no atmosphere means There's constant meteorite strikes I Wouldn't build my house there but 100 M Below the surface in a lava tube there Your protected from heat radiation and Getting peppered by space rocks we've Known that for years but we've just Never found an entrance to these tubes Until now Italian astronomers looked Really close at Old radar data from the Lunar reconnaissance Orbiter and they Found the way that it bounces off this One pit means that there's a tunnel at Least a few dozen meters deep in it this Changes Moon caves from Theory to fact Suddenly every aspiring lunar colonist Has to consider tunnels as real options This one is even in a good neighborhood Mar tranquilatus where Apollo 11 landed Look NASA is going to spend billions of Dollars on its long-term Moon presence

And when NASA spends billions the space Industry does too and investors there's A th% chance of a boost companies doing Robotic exploration and excavation lunar Power and batteries and of course tunnel Appropriate habitats if you don't Already have a moon cave start up get After it