In the brief history of space exploration, humans have already made significant changes to the moon. From the cultural legacy of our first footprints to the damage caused by spacecraft crashes, our existence is largely frozen in time within the moon’s dusty regolith.
Now, researchers are pushing to officially define a new lunar epoch: the lunar Anthropocene.
They claim that this era began in 1959 with the first-ever landing of Russia’s Luna 2 spacecraft on the moon. I spoke to one of the researchers, a space archaeologist. Dr. Justin Holcomb Learn more at the University of Kansas, USA.
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