Oddity

The Beresheet lunar library

An Israeli lander crashed here carrying 25 nickel discs holding thirty million pages, with dried tardigrades and human DNA set in resin between the layers.

Often said

• Tardigrades are living on the Moon — they were dehydrated tuns encased in epoxy. Cryptobiosis is a pause button, not life support, and this mare has no accessible water.
  EarthSky, on the Beresheet lunar library
• The library survived the crash intact — that is the payload owner's own claim, from orbital imagery that cannot resolve a 100-gram stack of discs.
  Arch Mission Foundation; LROC post 1101

How the map draws it

Drawn from published dimensions for the stack of nickel discs and a tardigrade beside it · the 1 mm stack is thickened and laminated in four bands, not twenty-five, and the half-millimetre tardigrade is nothing like to scale.