The Martian caves would protect humans from radiation and the severe weather, and may hold minerals, water and ice the colonists could use for life support.
`They're a safe place on a dangerous planet, an ideal refuge for research,'' said Penelope Boston, lead investigator for ``The Caves of Mars,'' a series of experiments partly funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.
`Caves can serve as the foundation to advance our civilization on Mars,'' said Boston, who also is director of cave studies at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
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`They're a safe place on a dangerous planet, an ideal refuge for research,'' said Penelope Boston, lead investigator for ``The Caves of Mars,'' a series of experiments partly funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.
`Caves can serve as the foundation to advance our civilization on Mars,'' said Boston, who also is director of cave studies at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
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