The first answer to the question of whether there is life on the moon, tried to give an outstanding astronomer Carl Sagan. In the early 1960s, based on the readings of special instruments, he concluded that there were impressive caves in the bowels of the moon. Life on the Moon seemed quite real, because by studying the microclimate of these caves, scientists came to the conclusion that they have all the conditions favorable for life. According to the astronaut, the volume of some of them is 100 cubic kilometers. A few years later, Soviet scientists M. Vasin and A. Shcherbakov put forward a hypothesis that the Moon is a kind of spaceship with a huge cavity inside.
Interestingly, the Apollo flights also made us think that life on the Moon is not fiction. According to former NASA space liaison officer Maurice Chatelain, Apollo was equipped with a special nuclear charge, with which it was planned to cause an artificial moonquake. It was assumed that after the explosion, scientists would observe the lunar infrastructure and process data usingspecial seismographs. However, the Apollo was never destined to fulfill its mission: a mysterious explosion of one of the oxygen tanks in the cockpit destroyed the ship, and the nuclear experiment was unsuccessful.
Another proof that there is life on the Moon may be the fact that in the maps of ancient astronomers there is not a single record of the Earth's satellite. The drawings of the ancient Maya also depicted gods descending from the “new sun”. And in 1969, another experiment was conducted: empty fuel tanks of drones were dropped onto the surface of the moon. As a result of processing the information received from seismographs, astronomers concluded that at some depth there is something remotely resembling an eggshell 70 kilometers thick. According to the analysis, it was found that this “shell” includes nickel, beryllium, iron, tungsten and other metals. Apparently, such a shell could only have an artificial origin.
Although from a biological point of view, intelligent life on the moon is really impossible. And this is not surprising: while the sunny side of the Moon heats up to +120ºC, the shadow side cools down to -160ºС. In addition, there is no atmosphere on the Moon that could protect living organisms from a colossal temperature difference. And the peculiar veil of gases around the satellite cannot be called a full-fledged atmosphere.
Plus, the surface of the moon is dotted with tens of thousands of craters. At first glance, they appear shapeless andmotionless. However, in scientific circles, the so-called “moving surface phenomenon” has been accepted. This means that the diameters of craters are not constant: in a couple of days a crater can grow in diameter, and small ones often disappear altogether. It can be argued that almost the entire surface of the Moon moves in this way: craters either disappear completely or reappear. The “movement phenomenon” undoubtedly tells us that life is still present on the Moon, just not in the earthly definition of the word “life”.
