ISRO finds cave in moon

In an article titled Detection of potential site for future human habitability on the moon using Chandrayaan-1 data in the latest issue of Current Science,lead author A S Arya and four other scientists from the Space Applications Centre said that a buried,uncollapsed and near horizontal lava tube was detected in TMC stereo images of the Oceanus Procellarum area on the Moon. Oceanus Procellarum is smaller than the Mediterranean Sea,and lies on the side of the moon visible from earth.

The particular lava tube lies slightly north of the lunar equator. Lava tubes are not unique to the moon,the authors note,citing studies on volcanic fields such as those on Hawaii,show most lava tubes remain partially void.