Why Are The Two Sides of The Moon So Different?

Will you accept a suggestion for your leisure time?
Sit by the sea or look out from the balcony of a great mountain range, take five minutes to look at the moon, and let your mind go back to the unconscious times when the spots on the moon represented a world of ever-changing figures.
Try to discover new ones. Then come back to yourself and, rationalizing your knowledge, ask yourself a question you may never have really thought about: why are the lunar seas all concentrated in the hemisphere facing Earth?
The problem, as you will see, is far from trivial, and the solution is far less intuitive than you might think.

Puzzlement
The most surprised by this revelation were indeed the experts in the field, who, although still in the controversy about the volcanic or impact genesis of the craters, had managed in previous years to form a rather reasonable picture of the turbulent history of the lunar landscape.
What popular culture defined as "spots on the Moon" were for official science nothing more than large basins filled with impressive lava flows of darker material, surrounded by the higher regions, the so-called highlands, whose tortuous terrain clearly told of a past marked by the destructive action of cosmic projectiles of every dimension.

The reaction
The first explanations invoked a marked asymmetry in the flow of cosmic projectiles hitting the Moon. The idea was that the presence of oceans on the side facing the Earth could be attributed to a greater number of high-energy impacts than those that affected the hidden side.

A new surprise
But it was not only the impact mechanism that was questioned.
The famous American astronomer Gerard Kuiper also invoked an asymmetric distribution of intense volcanic activity, but this idea did not gain much traction, in part because it could not explain how such a marked difference in geological activity could exist between the two hemispheres.

It gets more complicated
Apart from the fact that it remains to be explained why the crust is thinner exactly in the hemisphere facing the Earth, someone has immediately objected that there are also regions on the hidden side characterized by a very thin crust, but nevertheless,

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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 Overview
02:40 An epochal turning point
03:40 Puzzlement!
05:20 The reaction!
08:07 A new surprise
10:04 Towards a common solution?
10:43 It gets more complicated
11:50 A preliminary conclusion

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[Sleeper]

At 1:40 he says Cain was fleeing two lovers kissing. Never heard that one before. Certainly not in the biblical writings.

[jessemills]

The backside of the moon, is more impacted, because that was the LEADING SIDE for when it arrived.

[joejackson]

Because it’s harder to get between Earth and Moon??

[fernandochaves]

Great subject, great video. Nicely written with amazing images. Many questions to be answered about our moon... I guess with the constant visits in the next years by manned and unmanned missions many of them will be solved; with many new ones, and plenty of discoveries. The early soviet probes are nice subjects for other videos (one video each!), also the NASA ones... The space race of the 60's is a great topic..

[kevanhubbard]

I've often wondered that and it must be something to do with the gravity of Earth pulling on the lunar surface.The rear side only has two seas which are not visible from Earth (not counting those along the edge like the Marginal and Eastern Seas which can be seen from Earth with difficultly during libation) the Moscow Sea and Sea of Cleverness and only a handful of humans have seen them directly, ie/those who have either been to the Moon or around it like Apollo's 8, 9, 10 and 13.

[amangogna]

The moon is very strange that has many secrets !

[julianaylor]

Let's face it, we humans love a mystery. ❤
At least the Moon, definitely isn't made of cheese. 😁

[scottymoondogjakubin]

3.8 billion years ago the moon on average was about 42, 000 miles closer to earth than it is now ! The moon on average is slowly moving away at about 36mm's a year !

[richardmercer]

There was no point to painting the far side....

[bastiaanmannaart]

Gerard Kuiper was a Dutch astronomer, not American 😊

[raajrajan]

Shows but for moon asteroids would have pounded earthwith no chance of survival

[aliensoup]

I think that the more heavily impacted far side of the Moon as evidence against Young Earth Creationism - the idea that the Earth is no more than 10, 000 years old. If the Moon had been impacted that frequently over such a short period of time, statistically that would imply that the Earth being much larger in area and gravitational attraction would receive even more impacts. That much bombardment over only a few thousand years of human habitation would make life impossible. The Earth and Moon are billions of years old, and the Earth shields the near side of the Moon from objects approaching from that direction, resulting in fewer impact craters than on the far unshielded side.

[jessemills]

The LAVA on the moon is evidence of Repairs that were done.

[eduardohoover]

Modern Catholic here.

Islam is correct. Muhammad split the moon in two. End of story; now you know.

Mystery of Revelation Chapter 12.

Mary, Queen of Heaven, mother of the Church, stands on the moon (Islam) with a crown of 12 stars (Israel) and as a good mother she holds the family together, the sons of Abraham, against the dragon (Satan their common accusing enemy).

Now can we sons of Abraham please, ignore Satan, and live with each other together in peace?!

[ClipOfTheFail]

You know the dark side isnt dark the whole time it's kind of like the Earth that has a sun phase and the night phase and also that's where the aliens live why else would they tell you that you die if you go over there