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Europe Wants Ideas for Cave-Spelunking Moon Robots. Here's How You Can Help!
space.com ^
| 2019-09-15
| Elizabeth Howell
Posted on 09/15/2019 3:42:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
As NASA makes a big push to land humans on the moon's surface by 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to learn more about the lunar caves that lie beneath.
"Exploring and mapping these tubes could provide new information about the moon's geology, but they could also be an interesting option as long-term shelter for future human visitors to the moon," Franceso Sauro, director of ESA's Pangaea planetary geology astronaut training, said in a statement. "They would shield astronauts from cosmic radiation and micrometeorites and possibly provide access to icy water and other resources trapped underground."
The missions have several scientific objectives associated with them, ESA explained. Future explorers would not only need to access, navigate and map the caves, but may use other resources. Some possible ideas include establishing communications between the cave and "the outside world," ESA said, while others involve instruments that could take measurements of the environment of the cave.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cave; esa; eu; moon; robots
Well first of all...watch out for these guys...
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posted on
09/15/2019 3:42:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: Darksheare
Keep in your pocket for whenever it’s time for a new Undead thread?
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posted on
09/15/2019 3:50:25 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: BenLurkin
Europe Wants to Buy a Clue!
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posted on
09/15/2019 3:53:10 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: TigersEye
I’d say they’re on the right track.
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posted on
09/15/2019 3:54:45 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Rebelbase; Darksheare
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posted on
09/15/2019 3:55:13 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Looking for homes for the cave dwellers who live amongst them now?
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posted on
09/15/2019 3:59:18 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/15/2019 3:59:48 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Mastador1
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posted on
09/15/2019 4:06:15 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/15/2019 4:09:42 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(In a mandatory evacuation zone. I'm not.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
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posted on
09/15/2019 4:13:02 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: All
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posted on
09/15/2019 5:44:08 PM PDT
by
onyx
To: BenLurkin
Well here's a couple of ideas...
To: 1FreeAmerican
To: 1FreeAmerican
Send these two.
To: BenLurkin
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
09/15/2019 6:16:30 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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