07 August 2020
Huge city-wide lunar lava tubes identified in new study
... Moon an extraordinary target for subsurface exploration and potential settlement in the wide protected and stable environments of lava tubes. The latter are so big they can contain Padua's entire city centre,” says Riccardo Pozzobon, a planetary...
15 March 2021
Engineers propose a "Lunar Ark" to preserve millions of species' DNA on the Moon
...Thanga, the lunar ark concept, would be built in lava tubes that were discovered just beneath the moon's surface by scientists in...samples and construction material down to the base of the lava tube, one of the biggest hurdles to overcome will be how...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... the cave and, of course, in view of Earth. The technology of the Asagumo has been successfully tested in the lava tubes of the Komokado Kazaana cave in Japan. It is now a matter of proving that technology in the lunar environment. A model of Asagumo...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... bases. Kraterhausen A scientific research base, located in the lava tubes in the crater wall near the north pole, where crater... in particular the lunar regolith and icewater in the lava tubes at the bottom, are researched. Kraterhausen provides the ...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
...former craters that have flooded and filled with molten lava. The two most common kinds of rocks on the...include fully surface or fully subterranean habitats, for example, in lava tubes. The current proposals favoured by most space agencies include the...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... could be used to harden key structural load beams. Both the Moon and Mars possess caves and lava tubes that may be accessible for underground habitation by researchers and settlers in the future. Using local building material...
