Strange, gigantic sublunar chambers found on Moon

ISRO image of gigantic chamber (Courtesy NASA)

They may be natural…artificial…alien…no one knows for sure…

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced the discovery of a “giant underground chamber” not far from the Lunar equator. The mysterious chamber is located in the Oceanus Procellarum region of the Moon.

This latest gigantic, sublunar cavern was spotted by India’s Chandrayaan-1 spaceprobe.

The Indian researchers, in a paper published in a recent issue of Current Science, describe their discovery: the chamber is a whopping one mile long and almost 400 feet wide. Some theorize the underground chamber leads to a deep tunnel more than 1,200 feet wide.

This huge tunnel is big enough to house a city

Weird anomalies everywhere on Moon

This latest lunar oddity is nothing new. Strange formations, objects and phenomena have been observed on the Moon for several hundred years. Astronomers have reported seeing odd lights, moving objects, geological formations that abruptly disappear and other weird anomalies.

Space researcher Richard C. Hoagland has built a career, a series of books, a website and a busy guest lecture tour around the anomalies he sees on the Moon, Mars and some of the outer planet’s satellites. His primary focus is on Mars.

But the Moon is not Mars. Humans have set foot on it. Explored a bit of it with electric cars–even played a round of golf on it.

Mysterious Moon harbors deadly secrets

What are they really and where do they lead?

Can strange, gigantic chambers really pockmark Earth’s satellite? Where do they lead? Are they natural or artificial?

No one really knows.

The consensus of scientific thought is that the chambers, caves and deep holes have been formed mostly by ancient lava domes and flows.

Most astronomers agree. And the ISRO is not the first to find such a strange chamber.

Tunnel discovered by Kaguy probe…artificial?

During 2009, the Japanese Space Agency JAXA excitedly announced their lunar probe Kaguy photographed a hole in the Moon so large and deep they believed it could someday house a manned scientific base.

The Russians too have reported holes and cavernous features during the heyday of Lunar probes throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.

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