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Our New Moon Epoch
Popular Mechanics US
|July - August 2024
WHEN HUMANS GET INVOLVED IN places they weren't invited, things start to change. The Moon is no different.
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A team of researchers at the University of Kansas believes that human involvement has made us one of the dominant forces shaping the Moon.
That's enough, they believe, to declare a new epoch on the Moon-the "Lunar Anthropocene."
This story is from the July - August 2024 edition of Popular Mechanics US.
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