{"id":25475,"date":"2016-05-07T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/life-in-a-lunar-lava-tube-nearside-tunnels-as-ready-made-moonbases"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:29","slug":"life-in-a-lunar-lava-tube-nearside-tunnels-as-ready-made-moonbases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/life-in-a-lunar-lava-tube-nearside-tunnels-as-ready-made-moonbases","title":{"rendered":"Life In A Lunar Lava Tube: Nearside Tunnels As Ready-Made Moonbases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-in-a-lunar-lava-tube-nearside-tunnels-as-ready-made-moonbases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New reports that Russia is considering lava tubes as habitat; here\u2019s one from my lava tube archives\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nearside of Moon, by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Photo credit: Wikipedia) <\/p>\n<p>With only a trace of an exosphere, future lunar astronauts working nights outside will likely feel as if they are walking a catwalk through space itself.<\/p>\n<p>But night or day, they will be totally exposed to whatever the cosmos can throw at them; from solar x-flares and coronal mass ejections to galactic cosmic rays. As a result, radiation shelter on the lunar surface will become as paramount as the underside of a school desk in a 1950s-era \u201cduck and cover\u201d civil defense film.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2012\/07\/30\/life-in-a-lunar-lava-tube-nearside-tunnels-as-ready-made-moonbases\/#287a6a5925f7\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2012\/07\/30\/life-in...7a6a5925f7<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New reports that Russia is considering lava tubes as habitat; here\u2019s one from my lava tube archives\u2026 Nearside of Moon, by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Photo credit: Wikipedia) With only a trace of an exosphere, future lunar astronauts working nights outside will likely feel as if they are walking a catwalk through space itself. But night [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67551,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions\/67551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}