A moon exploration simulation with robots was conducted in a Jingbo Lake volcanic lava cave in China. Research indicates that ...

In a paper recentlypublished in Science Robotics, researchers unveiled the results of a bold field experiment simulating robotic exploration of subsurface lava tubes—environments believed to exist on ...

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At a little more than a mile, Lava River Cave is Oregon’s longest intact lava tube. It’s also one of the most popular caves to explore in central Oregon. The cave is part of Bend’s Newberry National ...

A scientific team from the Space Robotics Lab at the University of Malaga that participates in this project tests and validates three robots on the volcanic island of Lanzarote (Spain) Lava tunnels on ...

The international journal Earth-Science Reviews published a paper offering an overview of the lava tubes (pyroducts) on Earth, eventually providing an estimate of the (greater) size of their lunar and ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The ‘Āina Informatics Network in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Los ...

Planetary exploration, specifically within our own Solar System, has provided a lifetime of scientific knowledge about the many worlds beyond Earth. However, this exploration, thus far, has primarily ...

Mars skylights like this could be the mouths of caves formed by lava tubes. NASA wants to explore them. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona Ever since scientists have had an orbiter's view ...

Is there life in Martian caves? It’s a good question, but it’s not the right question—yet. An international collaboration of scientists led by NAU researcher Jut Wynne has dozens of questions we need ...