Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side Suggest Earth’s Gravity Is Why Our Moon Has Two Very Different Faces
Nature World News | 29.10.2026 08:18
The side of the Moon that faces Earth looks nothing like the side that faces away, and new research suggests Earth itself may be the reason. Scientists studying the first rocks ever returned from the lunar far side propose that tidal heating from Earth, acting on a young Moon still covered by molten rock, pushed crust toward the far side and left the near side with the material that later fed its vast dark lava plains, according to a study summary on ScienceDaily.
