If astronauts could breathe on the moon without a spacesuit, these lava tubes would be ideal for a light sweater.
UCLA researchers found that shadowed areas of a pit in the Mare Tranquillitatis region stay consistently 63 degrees.
To learn what it might be like inside these lunar pits, a team of planetary scientists at UCLA used thermal imaging from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and determined the temperature, at least in one of these pits, is always a consistent 63 degrees. The findings were recently published, and UCLA's newsroom is calling it the discovery of year-round "sweater weather."
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