http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49845/title/Deep_hole_spotted_on_moon
The article I read for this weeks current events was about a possible skylight formed by a collapsed lava tube spotted on the moon. If this said skylight truly is a skylight, it would be the first ever to be found on the moon. Scientists say that this hole was most likely attached to a cavern that held flowing lava; and the notion of volcanic activity on the moon is not new.
Some evidence that this hole (which is 65 meters wide and somewhere between 80 and 88 meters deep) is in fact a skylight are that: craters made from meteors are no more than 15 meters deep, and that it is not a volcanic crater because it is not located near a transform fault line.
The picture above shows the skylight, taken from a satellite.
This article was short but good to read because it relates to our unit on volcanoes and some of the other physical features that result from the flow of magma beneath our Earth.
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