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reply posted on 21-11-2009 @ 06:50 PM by scraze
reply to post by Romanian



Originally posted by Romanian
wow, i guess it was a cave (could there be caves on the moon?) that was hit by a meteorite then..


.. well,


[..] scientists say, the unusually proportioned feature is most likely a portal into an underground cavern that once held flowing lava.

from the article in the OP: www.sciencenews.org...

.. so, yes, there could be caves on the moon, sort of.

And for maximum ease:

The feature is likely what geologists refer to as a skylight, or collapsed portion of the roof of an underground tube that once held flowing lava, van der Bogert and her colleagues propose. If that’s true, the skylight is the first such portal spotted on the moon.

from the same article.

So you're pretty much exactly right, if the scientists' theory is.


reply posted on 21-11-2009 @ 07:15 PM by Phage
reply to post by Zarniwoop


The image is from Kaguya.
It is probably the best defined image but not the first of suspected lava tube skylights.
lpod.wikispaces.com...

Cruikshank

[edit on 11/21/2009 by Phage]
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