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The Presence of Certain Minerals May Explain Why the Lunar Farside and Nearside are so Different


Why does the Moon have two different faces?. That question frames the lunar dichotomy: The nearside that faces us is different than the lunar farside. Scientists have worked hard to understand why that is, and new research says that the presence of certain minerals could explain why.

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