September 28, 2021
The Moon has two faces. The side facing the Earth is quite lively, with massive craters, huge rilles, and great maria (seas) which are in fact lava plains. The side facing away from us - not much to write home about. Tsiolkovsky is the largest crater and it isn't much. There are a lot of tiny craters just a couple of feet across; nothing like Clavius or Tycho. The so-called Dark Side is pretty boring and dull.
So why is our side so different from farside?
Well, perhaps because the Moon is actually two entirely different astronomical bodies?
Moon Origin Revealed in New Study: was Born out of Two Violent Impacts
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The hemispheres differ because one was facing a still very hot Earth and cooled very slowly, while the other side was facing the coldness of outer space and cooled more rapidly. The huge "seas†we see on the side toward us, and which are missing of the far side, are flows of molten material permitted by the greater degree of retained heat on the Earthward side.
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