Lunar lava tube could shelter a future Moon base

The Moon’s surface presents an unforgivingly harsh environment. As it lacks a magnetic field, it is exposed to levels of hazardous radiation 150 times greater than that on Earth. Without an atmosphere, it is fully vulnerable to deadly coronal mass ejections from the Sun, as well as a perpetual rain of impacting meteorites. And itsContinue reading “Lunar lava tube could shelter a future Moon base”
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