Thousands of Tardigrades Stranded on the Moon After Lunar Lander Crash.

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If any creature could survive a crash-landing on the moon, it would probably be a tardigrade.
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▼ When you look up at the moon, there may now be a few thousand water bearslooking back at you.
The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into  the moonduring a failed landing attempt on April 11. In doing so, it may have strewn the lunar surface with thousands of dehydrated tardigrades, Wired reported yesterday(Aug. 5).
Beresheet was a robotic lander. Though it didn't transport astronauts, it carried human DNA samples, along with the aforementioned tardigradesand 30 million very small digitized pages of information about human society and culture. However, it's unknown if the archive — and the water bears — survived the explosive impact when Beresheet crashed, according to Wired.
The tardigrades and the human DNA were late additions to the mission, added just a few weeks before Beresheet launched on Feb. 21. Much like Cretaceous fossils locked in (▪ ▪ ▪)

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themaskeditor

On a funny note firstly Israel should take a lunar landing course from ISRO.

It would be great if the Tardigrades survived the blast and the crash. And it would be a breakthrough to lean if they could have survived on the moon. Because Tardigrades are known to survive in very extreme conditions and can live without food and water for years.

Rhett_Bassard

If they survive and inhabit the Moon, I say it's theirs.
Who are we (H. sapiens) to invade yet another species?