Throughout all of human history, every person who has ever looked up at the moon has seen only the same face—the near side—because the moon is tidally locked to Earth, meaning it rotates at the same rate it orbits, keeping one side permanently facing away from us. While we have photographed, orbited, and even landed spacecraft on the far side, no human eye has ever directly observed it, making every full moon we have witnessed only half a story.
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Every Human Eye In History Has Seen The Same Side Of The Moon #Moon #FarSide #Cosmos #UniverseAdded:
There is a side of the moon we have never seen. Not from Earth, not once, not ever in all of human history.
>> [music] >> Every person who has ever lived, every eye that has ever looked up, has seen the same face.
The same craters, the same dark planes, [music] the same surface your ancestors saw 10,000 years ago.
The far side exists. [music] We have photographed it. We have orbited it. China landed a spacecraft [music] on it.
But no human eye has ever seen it directly.
>> [music] >> It faces away from us, locked in that position. Turned away, the way something turns away [music] when it has been keeping a secret for 4 billion years.
Every full moon you have ever looked at was half a story.
And the other half has never once looked back. [music]
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