‘Future missions must consider mitigating deleterious effects on lunar environments’
University of Kansas researchers want academics to declare a new historic era to better study the “deleterious effects” of human exploration on the moon, according to a new journal article.
The article , published Dec. 8 in the journal Nature Geoscience , calls for the designation of a “Lunar Anthropocene” beginning in 1959 when humans landed the first spacecraft on the moon. An anthropocene is a geological era marked by human influence.
Lead author Justin Holcomb, a postdoctoral researcher with the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, told the university news service that scholars already recognize the Anthropocene on Earth – “the exploration of how much humans have impacted our planet.”In the article, Holcomb and his co-authors said their goal in calling for a Lunar Anthropocene is to “prevent massive damage or a delay of its recognition until we […]
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