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First open lava tube may have been found, by Kaguya team
Vultur
post Oct 26 2009, 06:02 PM
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The New Scientist website has an article saying that an opening which might be a lava tube mouth has been found in Kaguya images.

Wasn't there a proposal (possibly from one of the Lunar X Prize teams?) of a Lava Tube Explorer rover? This might be a possible destination...
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post Nov 12 2009, 06:32 PM
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The lunar maria were created by lava flows billions of years ago. I think the most recent of these happened 1.2 billion years ago, so presumably the lava tubes are at least that old. Probably much older, depending on their locations... I'm assuming that the lava tubes can be dated by the age of the surrounding basalt.
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- Vultur   First open lava tube may have been found   Oct 26 2009, 06:02 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Yes, that proposal was from Astrobotic, for a foll...   Oct 26 2009, 06:14 PM
- - Phil Stooke   http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/selene_viewer/jp.../039/...   Oct 27 2009, 11:24 AM
- - Hungry4info   What amazes me is how circular this feature, and i...   Oct 27 2009, 12:11 PM
- - mcgyver   I thought lava was never suposed to have flown aro...   Nov 12 2009, 05:12 PM
- - Poolio   The lunar maria were created by lava flows billion...   Nov 12 2009, 06:32 PM
|- - mcgyver   QUOTE (Poolio @ Nov 12 2009, 06:32 PM) Th...   Nov 12 2009, 08:00 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Poolio @ Nov 12 2009, 10:32 AM) th...   Nov 12 2009, 08:39 PM
- - nprev   The Moon did have vulcanism way, way back in the d...   Nov 12 2009, 08:14 PM
- - Phil Stooke   mcgyver, you are a bit out of date. The argument ...   Nov 12 2009, 08:21 PM
- - Gsnorgathon   I think it's worth mentioning (again) that To ...   Nov 12 2009, 11:45 PM
- - antipode   Debated whether to add to such an old thread, but ...   Oct 12 2011, 06:22 AM
- - elakdawalla   Oh those are very cool. Gotta dig into the data t...   Oct 12 2011, 03:56 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   M126710873R http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lro...   Oct 12 2011, 07:47 PM
- - antipode   More news on lunar pits reported in Icarus: Distr...   Apr 17 2014, 11:47 PM
- - antipode   I'll add this to this thread because if its co...   Jan 11 2018, 11:05 PM
- - climber   Interesting study here: https://agupubs.onlinelibr...   Jul 28 2022, 06:30 AM

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