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Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies"

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

dammit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months 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!