27 December 2020, 3:56 am EST By
There are very few things on Earth that can survive anything, and among them are small microscopic animals known as tardigrades, which are also deemed as water bears and they are incredibly indestructible that they might actually be the only living organism on the moon right now.
(Photo : By Dmitry Brant)
Tardigrades in Space
According to Inverse, scientists believe this possibility after an Israeli Beresheet spacecraft attempted to land on the moon in April 2019.
Unfortunately, things did not go well, according to plan and the spacecraft ended up crash landing on the lunar surface along with its unusual cargo, including a copy of the entire English-language Wikipedia, a disk containing 30 million pages of details about the Earth, and thousands of the tiny dehydrated water bears.