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Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Gsus4@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies"

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[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yea, like a giant pile of statically charged asbestos that are hard to clean away.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So, together it sounds like you guys are saying that moon dust is "coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere."

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've found hitting it with microwaves sinters it together pretty readily, so that would be the likely way they'd deal with it. Apparently also an effective way of making bricks out of it!