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Old October 22nd 17, 09:20 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Discovery of 50km cave raises hopes for human colonisation of moon

William Elliot wrote:

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Fred J. McCall wrote:
William Elliot wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Fred J. McCall wrote:

The chasm, 50km (31 miles) long and 100 metres wide, appears to be structurally
sound and its rocks may contain ice or water deposits that could be turned into
fuel, according to data sent back by the orbiter, nicknamed Kaguya after the moon
princess in a Japanese fairytale."

See:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...sation-of-moon

should send a rover to check it out
Rovers can't do spelunking. You'd have to send people.

Why? A rover could go in, take a look around and come back to tell us
what it saw.


Rovers are only good on relatively flat ground and even there they
travel slowly to avoid accidents. No way one can go spelunking.


There are robots that walk into volcano craters.
Use one of those.


And send a human with it? Communication lag between your volcano
robot and the operator is?


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