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A literary view of the human era: ‘Anthropocene Reading’

The Anthropocene epoch — the proposed name for this time of significant human effect on the planet and its systems — represents a new context in which to study literature. A new book of essays co-edited by a UW English faculty member argues that literary studies, in turn, also can help us better understand the Anthropocene. (more…)

NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere

By Guest PostNovember 5, 2014Scienceanthropocene epoch, anthropocene reading, cfcs, cmes, coronal mass ejections, fevco, first look, jesse oak taylor, juan defuca platte, klimaabkuehlung, mars atmosphere, nasa mission, olympic mountains, ozone, pleistozaen, red planet, spacecraft, tobias menely, todd ehlers

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, and yielded a comprehensive map of highly variable ozone in the atmosphere underlying the coronas. (more…)

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A literary view of the human era: ‘Anthropocene Reading’

NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere