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Moon’s scientifically important sites could be ‘lost forever’ in mining rush (www.science.org)
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[–] JohnDClay 4 points 1 year ago

Here's a great video by Cody's Lab on the subject. Namely, there could be frozen microbes from Earth's distant past in the permanately shadowed craters since the moon is so much more stable than earth.

https://youtu.be/8c_4ilhM0wc