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Ars Technica
6 months ago
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Juno makes its first ultra-close flyby of the volcano-covered moon Io

NASA's Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of Jupiter's moon, Io, getting within 930 miles of its surface.
Io is a dry, geologically active moon with over 400 active volcanoes, making it of great interest to astronomers. [ more ]
www.scientificamerican.com
6 months ago
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Calling Our Times the 'Anthropocene Epoch' Matters Dearly to You

In 1922 British geologist Robert Lionel Sherlock published a book, Man as a Geological Agent: An Account of His Action on Inanimate Nature, that put forth what is now considered to be the central argument for recognizing the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch: the scale and character of human activities have become so great as to compete with natural geological and geophysical forces.
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