Tidal Locking | Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?

Опубликовано 28 февраля 2015, 15:19

In 1959, the Soviet spaceship Luna 3 beamed back images of something Earthlings had never seen before: the far side of the moon.

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Jack Wisdom, Professor of Planetary Sciences, MIT (personal communication)

Tidal Locking, Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_lo...

Matija Cuk and Sarah T. Stewart. 2012. Making the Moon from a Fast-Spinning Earth: A Giant Impact Followed by Resonant Despinning. Science 338, 1047. people.fas.harvard.edu/~cuk/pa...