Outside Earth
Of course there are caves outside Earth.
If there are other planets in the universe, why should there be no caves?
Unfortunately the amount of information about those remote caves is really low.
So we tried to collect any bit of information here.
The result may seem a bit higgledy piggledy, but its the best we could do.
This site is about touristic caves and mines.
And of course it is very unlikely that any tourist will visit a cave on Mars in
the near future.
But still we think it might be interesting for you to hear about them.
See also
- Search Google for "Extraterrestrial Cave"
- Samuel B. Kesner, Jean-Sébastien Plante, Penelope J. Boston, Tibor Fabian, Steven Dubowsky> (2007):
Mobility and Power Feasibility of a Microbot Team System for Extraterrestrial Cave Exploration,
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007, ISBN: 1-4244-0601-3, pp 4893-4898.
online
- (2001):
Extraterrestrial Caves: Science, Habitat, Resources,
NIAC CP 99-03, Phase I - # 07600-045,
Complex Systems Research, Inc., Boulder, CO
online
- P.J. Boston, R.D. Frederick, S.M. Welch, J. Werker, T.R. Meyer, B. Sprungman, V. Hildreth-Werker, S.L. Thompson, D.L. Murphy (2003):
Human Utilization of Subsurface Extraterrestrial Environments,
Gravitational and Space Biology Bulletin 16(2) June 2003
online
- J. Judson Wynne, Timothy N. Titus, Guillermo Chong Diaz, Christina Colpitts, W. Lynn Hicks, Denise Hill, Daniel W. Ruby, Cristian Tambley (2009):
Cave Microclimate Data Retrieval and Volumetric Mapping,
2009 Atacama Desert Expedition, Chile, EarthMars Cave Detection Project: Explorers Club Flag Report (Flag #52),
online