Tardigrades on the Moon
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title:
Tardigrades on the Moon
text:
On April 11, 2019, the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into the Moon during a failed landing attempt. Its payload included a few thousand tardigrades. Initial reports suggested they could have survived the crash landing. If any of them did survive, they would be the tenth species to reach the surface of the Moon, after humans, brought by the American Apollo program, and fruit flies, silkworms, cottonseed, potato, rapeseed, Arabidopsis thaliana, as well as yeast — the latter seven all brough
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description:
Possibly lunar-lander-crash-surviving tardigrades
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrades_on_the_Moon
date created:
2023-06-14T20:09:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T00:23:47Z
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