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The spacecraft NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided the most detailed pictures of two huge hole in the lunar surface. According to experts, they are like black holes, which go deep into the satellite, and their study is very important for science.
According to scientists, dark failures could be formed due to the destruction of lava tubes beneath the surface. Due to external influence, perhaps, the impact of a meteorite, the breed has failed inside, creating a fairly smooth and deep failure. In other words, it is a cave, which has collapsed the ceiling, which gives the opportunity to explore the deep generally unavailable layers of rocks.
One of these holes - Marius Hills, a study which was done by Japanese probe SELENE/Kaguya. Its diameter reaches 65 meters and its estimated depth - 88 meters. This is enough to hide, for example, the American White house.
Another hole Mare Ingenii, which is almost twice as much. And the most surprising - it is located in a zone where there is a small number of signs of volcanic activity.
According to scientists from the University Carnegie Mellon, such education on the lunar surface can help in space. For example, they can accommodate lunar base with platforms to test the methods in the search for life on Mars.
It should be noted that to make detailed pictures of failures rather difficult. And here LRO lucky, he could catch the right angle of incidence of the rays of the Sun that ever struck the bottom of a failure. At the moment specialists are mainly engaged in modelling of volcanic formations on the moon. It is noted that already now the accuracy of the simulated experiments is 92%, which significantly exceeds the results obtained directly from the spacecraft.
Information about the moon holes will be very useful when designing space bases on the moon.