The sterile moon may still hold hints of how life began on Earth
Lunar south pole ice may be worth protecting even if contamination elsewhere isn’t a risk
After decades of human and robotic exploration, we still haven’t found evidence that alien life ever existed on the moon.
NASA/Ames Research Center/Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
No life and not much potential, Science News, January 17, 1970 —
The lack of life on the moon, or even of biological compounds that might under some circumstance lead to it, had been expected long before Apollo 11 went there….The