There is a Mysterious Hole in the Martian Crust That Could Hold the Future of Humans on the Red Planet

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There’s still a whole lot we don’t know about Mars, humanity’s next big off-world destination. Well, this hole on the Martian surface has raised even more questions about the inner-working of the red planet, as scientists have no idea what it is.

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00:00there's still a whole lot we don't know about mars humanity's next big off-world destination

00:08and this hole on the martian surface has raised even more questions about the inner workings of

00:13the red planet as scientists have no idea what it is the image was captured by the mars reconnaissance

00:18orbiter while soaring over the arcea mons region the hole is only a few meters in diameter but it

00:23is particularly important to planetary researchers as arcea mons was once a region with active

00:29volcanoes scientists have long said that if humans were to go to mars we would need sturdy shelters

00:33from the extreme weather and intense radiation from the sun one avenue of engineering research

00:38points to lava tubes as a possible location for human shelters to be built natural caverns that

00:43block wind dust and solar radiation that's why this image is exciting for nasa however they still need

00:49more info that's because rather than a lava tube this could be what's called a pit crater where a

00:54collapse of material deeper underground has left a giant chasm rather than a tube meaning it would

00:59likely not make for good shelter on mars experts say the next step is to get a robotic mission to one

01:04of these sites ahead of a human mission to set up a base there

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