Tardigrades: We're now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures

It’s been revealed that a space mission was carrying a cargo of dehydrated microscopic lifeforms known as tardigrades.

By Monica Grady of The Open University.

An Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet almost made it to the moon in April. It took a selfie with the lunar surface in the background, but then lost contact with Earth and presumably crashed onto the lunar surface. Now it’s been revealed that the mission was carrying a cargo of dehydrated microscopic lifeforms known as tardigrades.