Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole
in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior
Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar
Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer a
Atmosphere and Dust
Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer
atmosphereatmosphere.
Quantified preparations of Polybacter spp were then cultivated
in laboratory conditions at a constant temperature of 6 °C and a constant pressure of 41
atmospheres and an oxygen content of 2.3 % to simulate averaged conditions
in the benthic
environment (Ragnsdottir 2003).