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Edited by yankeyhotel:
10/22/2014 2:47:20 PM
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Caves on the moon.
Ok, so as I explore those dark caves on the Moon, I keep thinking about how they would have been created. I know the "big" caves were dug out by the Hive, ok Destiny lore that makes sense. But the smaller caves on the surface of the moon (if the Hive didn't make those) would have to have been made by water or wind erosion right? I guess what I am wondering is in real life there aren't caves like that on the Moon, or are there? I guess it would be pretty cool to explore a cave on the Moon.
Anyways, been a really long time since my geology classes in college, but I think about it every time I go into a surface cave on the moon. Thanks again
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Well the gravity seems to be the same for all places in Destiny, so I wouldn't look too deep into the science of the game. VERY little is known about erosion in space—the action of dust, gas, ions and electrons in wearing away material from exposed surfaces in interplanetary space. A cosmic-ray exposure age is obtained from the measurement of one radioactive and one stable spallation isotope produced in a meteorite by cosmic rays. A new interpretation of this age indicates that it sets an upper limit to the erosion-rate of a meteorite in space. The more obvious interpretations in terms of meteoritic break-up and planetary perturbational effects may remain valid.
