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Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground
In some parts of northern China, large pits are dug into the ground to form sunken courtyard homes. Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave ...
Scientists discover an underground cave on the moon where astronauts could live, and suspect hundreds more
How such a large cave formed on the moon ... NASA's LRO has identified over 200 of these pits on the moon, suggesting there ...
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World’s largest underground thermal lake discovered in Albania’s 330-feet abyss
Image source: Instagram This new research has confirmed the largest underground thermal lake on ... caves were discovered by descending into the pit, some of which contained thermal springs ...
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A mysterious hole on Mars could be a jackpot of scientific discoveries, from extraterrestrial life to where astronauts could live
The holes, aka pits, are located on the flanks of ancient volcanoes in Mars's Tharsis region, the largest volcanic region ... is a possibility that residual underground lava tubes may still ...