Thursday, June 01, 2006

Digging in on the Moon

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Can bulldozers save Moonwalkers from solar flares?

The short article above talks about how to protect astronauts on the moon from radiation by burying them. Well, their habitats anyway.

Seems to me that looking for suitable caves for shelter would be a good idea too. Must be some somewhere up there.

By the way, TLPs (transient lunar phenomena) don't get much of an airing these days. Would these sites be good places to send explorers (of the human or robotic kind) looking for holes or caves to live in? (Maybe the holes are full of gas, though. Still, would be interesting to try to find any active geological process going on there.)

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