56. Are there any life forms on the Moon? (A K2S Question)

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There are no life forms that have been found in any of the samples from the Moon studied so far, and there are unlikely to be any, that we understand as life, given the almost complete lack of water on the Moon. Interestingly, when Apollo astronauts returned a camera from one of the Surveyor probes, scientists were surprised to find that microbes appeared to have contaminated the camera before its trip to the Moon. One group of microbes even appeared to have successfully survived their journey to our neighbor! http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo12/A12_Experiments_III.html (See CDROM) http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (See CDROM)

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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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