Scholars say it's time to declare a new epoch on the moon, the 'lunar Anthropocene'

Lawrence KS (SPX) Dec 11, 2023

Human beings first disturbed moon dust on Sept. 13, 1959, when the USSR's unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the lunar surface. In the following decades, more than a hundred other spacecraft have touched the moon - both crewed and uncrewed, sometimes landing and sometimes crashing. The most famous of these were NASA's Apollo Lunar Modules, which transported humans to the moon's surface to th