Taken from the October 2019 issue of Physics World.
Is there a microbe army rising on the Moon? In this article (originally published in Lateral Thoughts, Physics World’s regular column of humorous and offbeat essays, puzzles, crosswords, quizzes and comics, which appears on the back page of the print edition), ESA astrobiologist Nicol Caplin ponders the pitfalls of planetary protection, and sending biological samples to the Moon
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