Lava tubes detected on Venus for the first time

This research was published on February 9, and it is amazing, it is shocking, it is when you are looking for something that you suspect is normal, that it is common, that it has to exist out there, to see if we can find it and suddenly you find that it does exist and that it is enormous and that exceeds your expectations and your calculations and breaks your schemes completely.

Where there are volcanoes there are caves, volcanic caves or volcanic tubes or jameos, on Earth there are many cases, in Lanzarote, Spain there is a jameo the size that an auditorium for 550 people was built inside, this already serves as a reference for the potential that these caves have to establish human bases or establish colonies or stations protected from cosmic radiation, protected from the impact of meteorites, for example, but on Earth it is a very dynamic planet, we also have erosion due to the water that seeps into the ground, the movement of tectonic plates, earthquakes, and volcanism that is very abundant on Earth.

On the Moon it is known that there are volcanic tunnels that were formed billions of years ago, they are enormous and very stable, they have existed for billions of years, they are that stable because the lunar crust solidified a long time ago and is much thicker than the Earth's crust and there is no movement of tectonic plates. To destroy a lunar tunnel, a large asteroid would have to directly impact it, and it would also only destroy a section because lunar tunnels are very long.

In 2017, the Japanese discovered a lunar tunnel up to 50 km long and about 100 m wide. It would be in the Marius Hills, with those dimensions, because you can put an entire city or whatever factories you want in there to build whatever you want, it may not be the largest, because those tunnels on the moon are the ones close to the surface, the ones accessible to humans. A little further down, at a depth of 500 m, which is good, which is not too exaggerated, you can drill deeper. There are studies that say that we could find colossal caves up to 5 km in diameter, that is not only enough for a city, you can create an entire ecosystem in there, on the moon we have it quite clear and it would also be a goal for Elon Musk if he wants to build those factories and that colony he wants to build, he would have to look for a lunar cave.

On Mars there is impressive volcanism, it has the largest volcanoes in the solar system, its crust like the moon, it has no movement of tectonic plates and we have already found several cases of volcanic tunnels, although they are much less investigated than the lunar ones, unlike the moon Mars is a dusty and dynamic planet, the dust erodes the entrances of these caverns or covers them completely, it may be that some dune fields have a grotto or the entrance of a grotto underneath, in addition, also In the past it had intense ice erosion, in the not so distant past, so the holes that we are discovering are more hidden than the moles, but let's look at them and we are finding them and there will surely be large ones.

Venus is the planet most similar to Earth in the entire solar system in terms of size, gravity and composition, we know that there are volcanoes and one day we may begin to terra-transform Venus, if this is done, humans would have to occupy floating bases, but as soon as the acid is removed from the clouds and the surface temperature is lowered, which is currently about 462º Celsius, perhaps, perhaps with mega engineering, building a screen that prevents solar radiation and thus cools the planet, We could settle on the surface and the ideal places, at least during the first times, would be the lava tubes, because the environment would not be breathable and the radiation would also be intense.

Venus does not have a protective magnetic field, one would have to be created, there are lava tunnels on Mars, there are this type of caverns, all the scientists that you would have asked until a few days ago would tell you yes, because if there are volcanoes there must be lava tubes, but it turns out that on February 9 that research was published and surprise because a lava tube was found, but it was thought that they would be similar to those on Earth in terms of size, that is, tens of meters, it turns out that they are not.

The one that has been discovered the first that has been discovered. It may not even be the biggest, it may be one of the average ones. The one that has been discovered is enormous, it was done by analyzing the radar data of the Magellan probe that investigated the area between 1990 and 1992, because now it turns out that we do not have any spacecraft studying Venus, there is no spacecraft on Venus.

We have the data from the Magallanes probe, the data has been re-analyzed with artificial intelligence, etc., and this crater has been discovered, and it has about 1,350 m in diameter at the entrance, which is the collapsed area, the hole area that can be seen with the radar images, in addition, you can go a little deeper, it goes deeper and you can see that it has a diameter of diameter, that is, the width of the tunnel up to 525 m further in, as far as you can See, at the entrance it would be the widest part, 1350 m and at the deepest part, which can be studied, which could be much further away, 525 m in diameter.

The height of the cavern is no less than 375 m, inside you could put the Eiffel Tower with its antenna and you would still have about 45 m left over to put a giant balloon of Micheline's doll waving, finally, it is estimated that the ceiling of the cavern has a thickness of 150 m, so you have enormous protection against impacts there, you are super protected there in terms of meteorite impacts or whatever and according to the researchers, these estimates are Cautious, it may be that they have underestimated the real value due to the geometry of the lava tube and that it may be a little larger and I also remember that they are radar images and that they are radar images taken with technology from the 90s, there are many left to discover and investigate.

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