Source: China – South China Morning PostScientists in China and Britain have found that the far side of the moon is not only visually different from the near side, but it may also be colder.
The team made the discovery after analysing the first-ever rock samples returned to Earth from the moon’s far side, retrieved during China’s Chang’e-6 mission last year.
By comparing the samples with those taken from the near side, they revealed a thermal asymmetry between the two sides of the moon, with the minerals from the far side appearing to…Read More