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ESA offers details on plans for exploring lunar caves
Shane McGlaun - Mar 1, 2021, 5:57am CST
Back in 2019, the European Space Agency (ESA) asked for ideas for detecting, mapping, and exploring lunar caves. The ESA selected five of those ideas to be studied in more detail, with each addressing a different phase of a potential mission to the moon for exploring lunar caves. There were five Sysnova studies, and three mission scenarios were developed.
One mission study was to perform a preliminary scout of entry pits and underground caves from the moon’s surface. Another was to lower a probe into a pit and access the first part of the cave. The third was to explore an underground lava tube using an autonomous rover. The ESA says that the studies were very different in topic and approach, and they all provided insight into potential technologies for exploring and investigating lunar subsurface geology.