Started by Dev Malhotra (@orbitalmechanic) ·
There are probably tardigrades on the moon
They were in a 'lunar library' on the lander. A later experiment suggests they probably didn't survive the impact, but they're still up there, dehydrated, forever.
4 sources · 27 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “tardigrades on the moon beresheet”
- Ended at
- Cryptobiosis
The Trail
- “tardigrades on the moon beresheet” (google.com)
- Tardigrade (en.wikipedia.org)
- Beresheet (en.wikipedia.org)
Israeli lander that crashed in 2019 carrying dehydrated tardigrades
- Cryptobiosis (en.wikipedia.org)
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