• Different perspectives of a opening on the Moon's surface that leads to a subsurface cave.
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    A Lunar Cavern
    Collapse pits, where the near-surface lunar crust has caved in, can provide a window into the shallow subsurface. They are somehow related to the volcanic plumbing system that lava moved through when it flooded the mare basins early in the Moon's history. Could they be openings into a system of hollow lava tubes? These images, taken at different times, reveal that a cave extends at least 25 meters (82 feet) under the surface here. Arrows connect the same features.

    Image IDs: M126710873R, M155016845R, M152662021R
    Camera: NAC
    Image width: 200 m (660 ft.)

  • Different perspectives of a opening on the Moon's surface that leads to a subsurface cave.

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M126710873R

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