Less Likely Places to Find Life in Our Solar System

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  • John Herschel
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The Moon is the closest astronomical object to the Earth, and the only one on which we can see significant surface features with our naked eyes (the Sun is too bright, and everything else is pointlike or, like the Andromeda galaxy, too dim). As a result, it has from time immemorial inspired many fanciful notions, including that the Moon is inhabited. In fact, life on the Moon was the subject of one of the most famous hoaxes ever perpetrated.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013