Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

lunar pits and how they may be used by humanity in the future. Lunar pits are exactly what they sound like. They are pits on the

moon. The reason we're going to be talking about this is because the Lunar

Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is a satellite orbiting the moon.

It's making like a 3D map.

It detected the entrance to a cave system.

Now the idea of caves on the moon, not new. They've been talked about for half a century or so.

But this one is something that appears accessible.

The cave system, the entrance to it, is inside of a lunar pit.

This lunar pit in particular is kind of close to where Apollo 11 landed back in 1969.

It is reportedly, I want to say 100 meters deep,

so it would require a space elevator or something to get down to it.

And the current belief is that they were created by like lava flows,

is where the pits came from and it indicates the presence of an

undiscovered underground world that we really don't know anything about.

However, in the event that humanity does start placing bases on the moon, these are probably going to come into play.

Because just like here on Earth, you want some kind of shelter. So having the base in a lunar pit in a cave system that

is accessible that way creates a situation where you have something that has a stable temperature, is somewhat

shielded from all of the vague threats that exist in space like radiation and you know little baby

meteors and stuff like that it provides shielding from the elements.

The thing that caught my ear when people were talking about it, they said that people

might be living in them within the next 20 to 30 years.

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