Life in caves and craters may be more likely than life on the moon. People are exposed to less radiation, and food may grow better there, too.
The researchers studied a 100-meter-deep crater in the lunar basalt plain. The crater is part of the Sea of Tranquility, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first to walk on the moon in 1969.
Part of the crater has a “roof”, and in that part covered with shadows, the temperature is stable 17 degrees above zero. It is possible that the pit is the entrance to some kind of cave, and it will be almost warm there.
Extreme temperatures elsewhere
The exposed parts of the same crater are more extreme, just like the rest of the moon. The sun shines on it continuously for fifteen days without blocking the atmosphere. Then the temperature rises to about 150 degrees. Then night falls for fifteen days, and then the mercury drops to minus 170 degrees.
In 2009, a Japanese probe discovered the so-called digging the moon Be on the moon. To date, about two hundred such craters have been found. They are not pits, because they were not formed by impacts. Lava was probably used to flow through at least sixteen craters.
The United States wants to bring people to the moon and back in the coming years, with help from Europe, Canada and Japan. Unlike in the 1960s and 1970s, the intention now is to stay on the moon for a long time.
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