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Countries around the world are unraveling all kinds of mysteries by sending various satellites and spacecraft to the moon. Last year, ISRO created history by landing Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the moon.
Chandrayaan-3 investigated many important elements including water, sulfur on the surface of the moon and proved that the moon could be a viable option for human habitation in the future. Now in this sequence, scientists have given another good news. Scientists have found a suitable place for human habitation on the moon. Italian scientists have discovered a huge cave on the moon. This place is a short distance from the place where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon 55 years ago. There may be hundreds of caves at this place. Scientists believe that the place on the moon where the big cave has been discovered may have hundreds of other such caves, which can be used as a shelter for astronauts in the future. Italian scientists said on Monday that they have found evidence of a very large cave on the moon. It is located in the Tranquility Sea, 250 miles (400 km) from the Apollo 11 landing site.
Tunnel-shaped caves
The cave was formed by the collapse of a lava tube (tunnel-shaped structure), similar to more than 200 other caves found there. The researchers analyzed radar data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and compared the results with lava tubes on Earth. The findings of this study have been published in Nature Astronomy. According to scientists, the number of radars reveals the starting point of the cave. According to their estimate, the cave is at least 40 meters wide and 10 meters or more long.
The caves on the moon have remained a mystery for 50 years!
Leonardo Carrer and Lorenzo Bruzzone of the University of Trento wrote in an email that lunar caves have remained a mystery for more than 50 years. So it was very exciting to finally know about one of them. According to scientists, most of the caves appear to be ancient lava fields of the moon. Apart from this, there may be some such caves on the south pole of the moon as well. Where NASA astronauts are going to land by the end of this decade. It is believed that water is in frozen state in the craters on the south pole of the moon, which can be used as rocket fuel after drinking.