Research Paper

There have been discoveries about how Earth’s microbes are on the moon’s surface. The streptococcus

mitis, a common bacteria that is able to survive in space, live without water, nutrients, and radiation

protection. This microbe commonly found in our mouths, nose, and throats, which hitchhiked onto the

Surveyor 3, surviving in the vacuum for 3 years, which shows that there is a possible chance of life on the

Moon. Studies have shown that four billion years ago, when the Moon was only a billion years old, it had

a molten core, which would’ve generated its own magnetic field, the moon had gases escaping from the

underground which would form an atmosphere. It wouldn’t be as thick as Earth’s atmosphere, but it

would be enough for liquid water to form on the surface, which would last for a few million years. 500

million years later, the Moon’s volcanic activity was at its peak spewing out gases that would form a

second atmosphere and another watery habitat which would last for a few million years. If there was any

life on the moon now, it would be a few spores brought by the American and Soviet lunar missions during

the cold war. NASA has ideas about facilities that are needed to have a lunar outpost on the Moon. If we

want the Moon to support life, we’ll have to terraform the Moon to support it. In 2009 and 2010, a group

of international scientists discovered hundreds of millions of water ice on the Moon. It is also predicted

that the early Moon is likely to have been protected by a magnetic field that shielded lifeforms on the

surface from deadly solarwinds. There could’ve possibly been microbes thriving in water pools on the

Moon before it became dead and dry. The possibility of life on the Moon is possible, but we still have to

dig deeper by terraforming our moon until it become habitable for human life, and make lunar colonies.