2023-06-12 16:20:05
Lately, our natural satellite is talking about him. As part of the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the Moon, NASA invests millions of dollars in private companies. This method sometimes creates disputes. Indeed, at the time of the adoption of the Starship of SpaceX, the company of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos sued NASA. Yet, according to the agency, the Moon could harbor life.
Prabal Saxena, planetary researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, recently presented research on potential landing sites. This study indicates the possibility of microbial life on the Moonwhich could be hosted by the craters of the south pole of the Moon which are in permanent shadow.
NASA: astronauts would have left bacteria during the Apollo missions
The specialist says:One of our team’s most striking findings is that, given recent research into the beaches in which some microbial life forms can survivethere could be potentially habitable niches for these life forms in relatively protected areas on some airless bodies“.
Some experts have pointed out that organic molecules could very well have passed through space via meteors. But there is also another possibility, suggesting that humans left microbes on the Moon the last time they went there during NASA’s Apollo missions.
Heather Graham, organic geochemist at NASA, explains: “We consider humans as the most likely vector [de microbes]considering the extensive data we have on our exploration history and impact traces which constitute a second early, though less influential, ground source“.
To sum up, life could have been transported by meteorites and would remain in areas protected from solar radiation. But these bacteria could also have been brought by NASA astronauts. To be continued.
Source : futurism
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