{"id":180599,"date":"2024-01-16T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-moon-has-entered-a-new-geological-period-scientists-say"},"modified":"2024-01-16T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:23:51","slug":"the-moon-has-entered-a-new-geological-period-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-moon-has-entered-a-new-geological-period-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"The moon has entered a new geological period, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-moon-has-entered-a-new-geological-period-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For thousands of years, the moon inspired humans from afar, but the bright beacon in Earth\u2019s night sky \u2014 located more than 200,000 miles (321,868 kilometers) away \u2014 remained out of reach. That all changed on September 13, 1959, when the former Soviet Union\u2019s uncrewed spacecraft, Luna 2, landed on the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>The Luna 2 probe created a crater when it touched down on the moon between the lunar regions of Mare Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>That pivotal, lunar dust-stirring moment signaled the beginning of humanity\u2019s endeavors to explore the moon, and some scientists now suggest it was also the start of a new geological epoch \u2014 or period of time in history \u2014 called the \u201cLunar Anthropocene,\u201d according to a comment paper published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-023-01347-4\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Geoscience<\/a> on December 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For thousands of years, the moon inspired humans from afar, but the bright beacon in Earth\u2019s night sky \u2014 located more than 200,000 miles (321,868 kilometers) away \u2014 remained out of reach. That all changed on September 13, 1959, when the former Soviet Union\u2019s uncrewed spacecraft, Luna 2, landed on the moon\u2019s surface. The Luna [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}