Are there beings on the moon

But it would theoretically be possible for the tardigrades to be collected, brought back to earth, reanimated, and studied to see the effects of being on the moon. Still, it's nice to think that next time you look up at the moon, there might be thousands of dehydrated moss piglets looking back at you.

Attack of the Moss Piglets from the Moon? We'd watch it. Listen to Newsbeat live at and weekdays - or listen back here. Israeli spacecraft crashes on Moon. Image source, Getty Images. This isn't actually a tardigrade floating in space, but they are the first animal shown to be capable of surviving space exposure.

Image source, Science Photo Library. Young, can be found here. As for the light in the background , acting NASA chief historian Brian Odom here told Reuters via phone that it is a lens flare from the sun here. Aldrin was not on the Apollo 16 mission, but rather the Apollo 11 mission in , joined by Commander Neil A. Armstrong and command module pilot Michael Collins here , here.

There still could be microbial life on Mars, but to find it you'll have to dig a really deep hole and pull stuff up. Some of these moons, on the other hand, have geysers that shoot the material right into space, so you don't even have to land a spacecraft to find it. Shostak: Modern SETI experiments began in with astronomer Frank Drake and his Project Ozma, where he searched for inhabited planets around two stars using a radio telescope.

But by , SETI was being done informally by people who were working at telescopes, looking up the coordinates of nearby stars and hoping to pick up radio waves in their spare time. Ultimately, a democratic congressman from Nevada killed it. I find it ironic that a congressman from Nevada — home of Area 51 and the extraterrestrial highway — voted down the NASA SETI program, when they profit more from the public fascination with aliens that anywhere else.

Originally published on Live Science. Brandon has been a senior writer at Live Science since , and was formerly a staff writer and editor at Reader's Digest magazine. He holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of Arizona, with minors in journalism and media arts. The planet has had a poor record for successful landings, although it is much improved in the past decade. Would the tardigrades have survived atmospheric entry?

Even though the atmosphere of Mars is thin, it still provides sufficient resistance to cause serious damage to the outer shell of an entry vehicle.

If they had survived, would they ultimately be any more successfully on Mars than on the moon? We know there is plenty of ice below the immediate surface across much of the planet. Would an impacting spacecraft transfer sufficient energy to melt a local region of ice? Could that meltwater survive without sublimating away or refreezing for long enough that the tardigrades rehydrate and wake up?

What happens next? As detailed above, tardigrades need water to survive, not just to rehydrate them. They live on fluids derived from other living beings.

And, as far as we know, there are no living beings on Mars. But we still keep sending spacecraft to look for life. Irresponsible because Mars has the potential for life.