• Question: do you think its possible to find fossles on the moon?

    Asked by cerys to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I really doubt it, unfortunately.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      The moon was made when another planet smashed into the Earth and the melted rock came together and made the moon. But when this happened, no water made it to the moon, so we don’t think life could have ever survived.

      No life = no fossils 🙁

      But the spaceships that landed on the moon in the 1960s and 1970s might have had bacteria from earth on them, and if those made it on to the moon, they wouldn’t have survived, but might look a bit like fossils. We are a lot more careful with building spaceships now 🙂

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      I doubt the Moon every had the conditions suitable for life, so I’d be very very surprised if we ever found fossils there.

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