Nature has selected one of the images of the recent paper on lunar cave discovery published on Nature Astronomy under the coordination of RSLab in the ‘Images of the Month’ for July 2024. This prestigious achievement is related to an image of the paper that shows a 3D reconstructionsof the entrance of the cave as derived from the analysis of NASA LRO radar data and the related geological modeling. You can find the image and the related details here.

In general the paper has generated a very large attention from the media worldwide (more than 690  news outlets  according to Nature) with also funny appearence into a very popular American comedy show with Stephen Colbert (see at minute 3:50)

Below some other links to selected recent media publication (see also the news published on July 16th for many others).

Credits: the surface topography part of the image has been taken by ROC NAC data (Wagner, R. v., & Robinson, M. S. (2022). Lunar Pit Morphology: Implications for Exploration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127(8).