How the world impacting on moon and what will be its effect its continues?

A team of researchers at the University of Kansas has named the epoch that humans began to alter the planet in unprecedented ways: the "Lunar Anthropocene." They did this by pointing out that over 100 spacecraft have visited the Moon in the last 60 years, and it is estimated that humans have left behind about 226,800 kg of waste on its surface. The details of the Moon age have been published in Nature Geoscience. The proposed Moon age is similar to Earth's Anthropocene, when human activity began to impact our planet.

 This includes putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, hunting species to extinction, lighting a once-dark night with electric lights, and felling trees to create space for roads.

The same anxieties are behind this new name for the Moon; scientists know that no one lives there permanently.

"We contend that the Lunar Anthropocene has already begun on the moon, but we wish to avoid significant harm or a postponement of its acknowledgement," Kansas Geological Survey archaeologist Justin Holcomb said in a statement.

This is in response to worries that upcoming missions would drastically alter the Moon. This is in response to worries that upcoming missions would drastically alter the Moon. In an effort to take advantage of its resources and establish a base from which to launch trips to other planets in deep space, humans intend to launch several missions to the Moon.

According to Newsweek, scientists believe that the Moon landing of the former Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959 signaled the start of the era of lunar exploration and the Lunar Anthropocene.

The Apollo Lunar modules from NASA, which included the Apollo 11 mission, were among the most well-known missions to land on the Moon. Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon on July 21, 1969, was on board.

"Future missions must consider mitigating deleterious effects on lunar environments," stated the authors."There have been at least six accidental crashes into the lunar surface since 2019 - these will only increase as the new space race heats up and they pose a real risk to space heritage sites," noted Holcomb.

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