This electron microscopic image shows a moss pig crawling on moss.
What do we see in today’s NASA image?
The beast you see in the picture is not a space and extraterrestrial creature. This is a moss pig or blue bear (Tardigrade), which, among all the animals on Earth, could be the best candidate for an extraterrestrial being.
That’s because moss pigs can survive for decades without food or water. These organisms survive in temperatures close to absolute zero (minus 273 degrees Celsius) up to a temperature much higher than the boiling point of water. They are also resistant to near-zero and much higher pressures on the ocean floor and survive direct exposure to dangerous radiation.
The survival rate of these extremophiles (extremophiles) was tested outside an orbiting space shuttle in 2011. The resistance of moss pigs is such that they can repair their DNA and reduce the amount of water in their body by a few percent.
In 2011, they launched some of these small blue bears to Phobos (a moon of Mars) and in 2021 to the Earth’s moon. But the first launch was unsuccessful and the probe crashed during the second mission. In both of these missions, the polar bears became aliens to some extent. Mossy pigs are found in most parts of the earth, and there are more of them on the surface of the earth than humans.
