‘Lunar ark’ might store DNA from millions of species in Moon’s lava tubes – ZME Science

Cave entrances like this one in Mare Tranquilitatis may open into lava tubes. Credit: NASA.
Researchers at the University of Arizona have proposed an audacious plan to backup Earth’s biodiversity in the event of a planetary obliteration, i.e. nuclear war. The idea is to store the genetic material from millions of species below the moon’s surface in lava tubes, which could act as a ‘lunar ark’ that preserves Earth’s most cherished resource: the evolution of billions of years of life.
This project…

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