- Crewed missions to Mars may rely on extinct lava tubes to provide shelter from radiation.
- Researchers tested how well lava caves on Earth block radiation and suggest that the same structures on Mars would make suitable homes.
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Humans are headed to Mars, and we might be going sooner than you think. Assuming NASA’s crewed Artemis missions to the Moon go well, we could see a push to explore the Red Planet in person within the decade, with missions getting off the ground as early as the 2030s.
Many problems will need to be solved between now and then, of course. Not least of which is the question of where astronauts would live after arriving. Now, a new study suggests that ready-built homes might already be waiting for astronauts when they get there, as long as they know where to look.
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