The Moon’s two faces don’t match, and we think we know why
The lunar far side is maria-poor, crater-rich, and full of highlands.
With our first far side samples now in Earth laboratories, our leading explanation awaits its big test.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/moon-two-faces-different/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@startswithabang/115617237862847068
It amused me reading Arthur C. Clarke's 1952 novel 'Islands In The Sky', in Chapter 9 (which in my book has been printed upside down as Chapter 6)
is the sentence:
'It was true that I had seen many films and photographs of the Moon's other side, and it was also true that it was very much the same as the visible face.'
I suppose Clarke wasn't to know he was wrong for another seven years! 😄