#lavatubes — Public Fediverse posts

Oh… also there were lava tubes, boring humdrum lava tubes. Until someone invents #lavatubes on the air, I don’t think they’re worth the trip to the middle of the Mojave.

"#LavaTubes on the #Moon 🌙 are so big they can contain #Padua's entire city center. Despite the impressive dimension 📏, they remain well within the roof stability threshold because of a lower gravitational attraction. They have great potential for providing an environment in which temperatures 🌡️ do not vary from day- to night-time" ☀️🌑 https://phys.org/news/2020-08-lava-tubes-mars-moon-wide.html

#SpaceHabitat #MoonHabitat

Lava tubes near the source of the mighty Rogue River #oregon #RogueRiver #lavatubes

Underground river. An Olympic sized pool of water flowing / minute.

#Spot #robots 🤖 may explore #Martian #LavaTubes autonomously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTW-dbZr4U8

#SpaceRobot #NASA

#Guardian 📆 19 Nov 2023 A #WWF report found that global #wildlife 🦌 populations had plummeted by 69% 📉 in the past 50 years, largely linked to #human activities.
In 📆 2021, engineers from the #University of #Arizona unveiled proposals for a #SolarPowered “#lunar 🌙 ark”, which would seek to cryopreserve seeds, sperm and egg samples and store 🔒 them in a facility built into the #moon’s #LavaTubes https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/the-doomsday-vaults-storing-seeds-data-and-dna-to-protect-our-future

#LavaTubes 🌋 are good candidates for #habitats on the #Moon 🌙 because they are ready made structures with dozens of meters of solid basalt shielding. In addition to #radiation ☢️ shielding, these environments are also thermally stable (estimated temperature -20° Celsius 🌡️) https://lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Lava_Tubes