I finally got hold of the original scientific journal
article on that potential lunar lava tube and skylight (Geophys Res
Lett 36, L21206 (2009)). I was particularly interested in how they
estimated the width of the tube at a minimum of 370 m, which would
dwarf any lava tube on earth.
Don Cooper said:
I take it the nature of the Rilles is still a riddle? I wonder
if perhaps they are collapsed lava tubes.
If you read the first article, it said:
Sinuous rilles are thought to form in two ways: (1) an open lava
channel that thermally erodes into the lunar
http://dsc.discovery.com/space/qa/lunar-moon-skylight-carolyn-van-der-bogert.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091026-moon-skylight-lunar-base.html
Did anyone else notice that they claim the lava tube
associated with that skylight should be at least 370 meters
They were using the Missouri survey method.
The cave is 370 meters wide and 10 meters long.
I take it the nature of the Rilles is still a riddle? I wonder if perhaps
they are collapsed lava tubes.
-WaV
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net wrote:
http://dsc.discovery.com/space/qa/lunar-moon-skylight-carolyn-van-der-bogert.html
