Will NASA make human base in lunar caves? How long these caves on Moon are and will humans take drinking water from caves?

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Moon as well? Some of those caves are as big as 130 feet or 40 meters wide and tens of yards meters long, reports AP. Talking to the BBC, Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut to travel to space said that humans could potentially be living in lunar pits in 20-30 years as these caves looked like a good place for a base. She also said that this cave is so deep that astronauts might have to use “jet packs or a lift” to get out.

Lunar caves are made of lava tubes

Italian scientists Lorenzo Bruzzone and Leonardo Carrer at the University of Trento found the cave with the help of radar while they tried to penetrate the opening of a pit on a rocky plain called the Mare Tranquillitatis. The cave is situated at the Sea of Tranquility, about 250 miles or 400 kilometers from Apollo 11's landing site. The astronomers have also concluded that this as well as other more than 200 pits on the Moon were made by the collapse of a lava tube.

NASA measures lunar caves

The astronomers studied the radar measurements taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and compared the results with lava tubes on Earth. They said that the radar data reveals only the initial part of the underground cavity. Replying to the email sent by the AP, Leonardo Carrer and Lorenzo Bruzzone said that lunar caves have remained a mystery for over 50 years and it was exciting to finally prove their existence.

Do caves have frozen water?

Most of the caves have been found in the moon's ancient lava plains, some of them could also be on the southern pole