{"id":111167,"date":"2020-08-12T11:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-martian-lava-tubes-large-enough-to-fit-planetary-base"},"modified":"2020-08-12T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:26:14","slug":"scientists-martian-lava-tubes-large-enough-to-fit-planetary-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-martian-lava-tubes-large-enough-to-fit-planetary-base","title":{"rendered":"Scientists: Martian Lava Tubes Large Enough to Fit Planetary Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-martian-lava-tubes-large-enough-to-fit-planetary-base2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lava Tubes!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>District 13<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Despite their larger size, the researchers believe that the lava tubes are surprisingly stable, meaning settlers wouldn\u2019t have to worry about them collapsing around them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLava tubes could provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation and micrometeorite impacts which are often happening on the surfaces of planetary bodies,\u201d European Space Agency researcher Francesco Sauro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-08\/udb-lto080520.php\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cMoreover, they have great potential for providing an environment in which temperatures do not vary from day- to night-time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lava Tubes!! District 13 Despite their larger size, the researchers believe that the lava tubes are surprisingly stable, meaning settlers wouldn\u2019t have to worry about them collapsing around them. \u201cLava tubes could provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation and micrometeorite impacts which are often happening on the surfaces of planetary bodies,\u201d European Space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}