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Could tardigrades have colonized the moon?

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Tardigrades are microscopic animals that measure less than a millimetre in length. All have neurons, a mouth opening at the end of a retractable proboscis, an intestine containing a microbiota and four pairs of non-articulated legs ending in claws, and most have two eyes. Dehydrated adults survive for a few minutes at temperatures as low as -272�C or as high as 150�C.

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Could tardigrades have colonized the moon?

What happened to the tardigrades that were travelling on the Beresheet probe from Israel that crashed into the moon in 2019?

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Could Shipwrecked Tardigrades Have Colonized the Moon?

Just over five years ago, on February 22, 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be the first private spacecraft to perform a soft landing. Among the probe’s payload were tardigrades, renowned for their ability to survive in even the harshest climates. The mission ran into trouble from the start, with the failure of “star tracker”…

5 months ago·Mountain View, United States

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