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That we've known what the other side of the moon has looked like for only about 60 years of humanity's entire existence is just astounding. Although we still have a long way to go, our progress over the past 100-150 years is mind-boggling to think about.
There is no dark side of the moon, there are only the near and far side of the moon. In actuality, the far side of the moon gets slightly more sunlight than the near side, so it's not "dark" at all.
What I would like to know is if these kinds of patterns can be observed on tidally locked moons of other planets in this solar system as well. Would really help validate these theories
There are many other tidally locked things in the solar system. Both of Mars's moons, all 4 big moons of Jupiter, Saturn's big moons, Pluto and Charon, are dual tidally locked to each other.
@kourii yes I know they have many moons. But I didn't know off hand if they were tidally locked. I only knew about the ones.i mentioned. But yeah, things being tidally locked is way more common than not being tidally locked.
It’s absolutely wild that until the 1960s we had absolutely no idea what the far side of the moon looked like. There could’ve been a massive alien base there where their anthropologists lived while observing us and we would’ve had no idea.
There's another comment right above this saying the same thing. But considering the technology required in order to see it, I'm don't find it that shocking. For most of our time on Earth, we've been just another primate. Industrial revolution didn't even happen until a couple hundred years ago. That's how the golden spiral goes, there are these long boring parts that take forever before things finally get good.
I spent this entire video confused why the moon looked slightly odd. Then I remembered I'm in NZ and that most photos come from the Northern hemisphere. Duh.
Wow! This is the first time, ever, that my pre-watch guess was actually, potentially, confirmed (but in better detail). I think I'm learning how to think...thanks, SciShow! My guess was the tidally-locked convection imbalance.
Isn't that such a fantastic feeling though? Drawing conclusions, coming up with an idea, then having it not just confirmed but fleshed out as you learn more... it's one of the reasons I love this channel. ♥
I imagine KREEP is a SUPER valuable resource to mine once the Moon becomes commercialized. Also part of me now kinda wants a custom-made coin that has the near side of the lunar map etched on one side and the far side on the other.
I always just assumed that a) tidal forces caused the close side to stay hotter for longer, thus forming a thinner crust, and b) the far side gets bombarded more because it's not blocked by the earth.
2:36 Of course this isn't to scale. It made me chuckle, but I guess if it isn't already obvious to anyone watching this, then it's pretty important to point that out.
"because in chemistry K stands for potassium": it's more because in chemistry K stands for "Kalium", which is the Latin name for potassium that a lot of languages still use. It has the same origin as "alkali metal", the first few of which are lithium (Li), Sodium (Na, or natrium in other languages), and Potassium (K: kalium).
I’ve seen that young Optimus prime moon rock collection. They came to my homies school in 2011 Firebaugh (Lynwood, CA). He showed me the images and they had two NASA officialS with keys to unlock the moon rock samples FROM the briefcase. His teacher pulled a few strings. Never seen material like that on earth.
Also an effect of the KREEP means nearside is generally low land and far side is high land. The collision theory would also supported by the presence of two core structures inside the Earth-which is a recent finding.
The energy coming from the molten earth and spreading out as it crossed the distance between the Earth and moon should have been significantly attenuated according to the inverse square law. Would it have significantly influenced the cooling rate of the moon?
Since hot-spot volcanism on earth is thought to be antipodal to large impacts, are moon maria possibly the result of antipodal impacts during the late heavy bombardment? Was the moon tidally locked already by then? 🤔
If some geomorphologists suggest the Moon's tidal gravity has had a powerful influence on the Earth's tectonic plates (especially in the early years when the Moon was much closer to Earth), why then wouldn't the Earth have a similar effect on the young Moon, stirring up lava traps on the nearest side. Mars might also be an example of volcanism, triggered by large asteroids hitting the side directly opposite Mons Olympus and the three Tharsis Montes.
The far side is always facing out, so it captures more of the galactic debris raining in. Same way some moons that revolve around Saturn's rings look like ravioli or walnuts.
My hypothesis: The moon froze in a pangea phase, with all thick crust concentrated on one side. And the lopsided distribution of mass stabilised the tidal locking with the crust facing outside.
@@isaacthek That's just one of the intermittent states you'll have as long as there are still continents drifting around. Earth has gone through, how many? Three?
Also, the far-side would've had more asteroids, etc., colliding with it over those millions of years, adding even more mass onto what was already the heavier side!
Three faces for me the color gives off some inversion and craters turn into hills.. this also sounds like an example for one side being hollow while other side being packed..
"Doctors say they must operate soon, but there's no knowing what they'll find when they open up the wound - I will meet you on the other side of the moon..."
The Moon only has one face. That bright thing in the center left is an orb if people care to look again and more closely. Also, it's not gray. It's a bright light. Obviously.
Yes but they're rarer than flat earthers. Most flat earthers somehow believe that everything is a sphere EXCEPT earth, and the rest somehow believe that everything else is flat and facing us at all times. I'm not sure which is weirder!
@@awaredeshmukh3202 The former makes more sense to me when it comes to the purposes of Flat Earth. The primary point of Flat Earth is that Earth is not just some celestial object, it is the foundation of reality as described in the Bible, the "firmament". So they believe that the reason why there is a conspiracy to make the Earth seem to be a sphere is that it is meant to make the Earth's place in the universe less special. Earth's "just another planet", and it revolves around the sun, so it's not the center. It is not the foundation of the Universe, it is just another ball floating in space, there's no true up or down, positions are not absolute but relative. That's the reality, but some fundamentalist Christian evangelicals can't handle it. Junk science is a major component of Flat Earth but it's important to remember that the main driving motivation for it has relatively little to do with the shape of the Earth. It's all just evangelicalism and a whole lot of projection. Junk science is kinda par for the course when it comes to modern fundamentalist apologetics, to try and create the impression of legitimacy, but modern Flat Earth is kind of its own little weird club within that group that of course intersects with a bunch of other conspiratorial thinking that kinda gets folded into it, like the whole "world tree" thing. I like to point this all out when Flat Earth gets mentioned because it sometimes gets misunderstood as just people who are ignorant about science and are relying purely on their senses and intuition which can make the world appear to be pretty flat, and building their own quasi-scientific framework around that to try and explain the phenomena that occur specifically because the Earth is round. And there's some of that, there's a lot of "trust your eyes, not science" talking points, but the reasoning is a lot more motivated than people who think Flat Earthers are just idiots realize. More motivated and honestly a little more scary. But at least it's not a big club lol
Why did you ignore the relative high concentration of KREEP in the antipodal region of the map you first showed? In fact, every image of KREEP that I’ve seen shows BOTH sides, suggesting that y’all deliberately edited it out? I’m not saying it’s malicious, but saying that it’s ONLY on the near side, when in fact there’s clear evidence of (lesser yes) concentrations directly antipodal to the map you showed (on the far side) makes it seem like you’re leaving something out.
Don’t you think the gravity of the more massive Earth might have pulled the molten center of the early Moon towards the near side, causing the maria to well up through the surface?
No because tidal forces are symmetric. There is a pull of stuff on the near side towards the earth. But there is also a pull of everything away from the stuff on the far side (because they are closer to Earth than it is), causing a second bulge there. Why there would be a tide on the other side of the gravitational pull confused everybody until Newton found a way to work out what is going on.
The reason the moon is tidal locked is a lunar deep impact that penetrated the far side and embedded itself deep on the opposite side from entry. This mass is electromagnetically attracted to our cores dynamo. The reason the moon isn’t more like earth is when impacted the mantle was super thick with little liquid remaining and the bullet was captured like a catchers glove. The imbalanced core has no choice but to stay pointing at us. Quite simple
NASA is hilarious. First they sent Apollo, now they're sending Artemis? And before they sent a satellite named Juno to check on Jupiter.? y'all crack me up
There is a simple answer to your question: "Why is the moon two-faced?" The answer is because the moon is awesome. I know, I know....science demands a more detailed answer. But here's the skinny, the whole universe exists so that we can observe it. We exist so that the universe can be observed. We've been gifted life at this point in time to be amazed by all the discovery, and I for one am fairly jealous of future generations and the discoveries they will make.
Beofre this video I thought it was really obvious that the Earth would shield one side from meteor impacts and this asymmetry would cause the moon to develop differently.
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I'm sure that's no accident
@@taylordunn3741 ‼️:H❓U❓H
kreep and tough crust , damn all i can think is PIZZA
@@nottsork ???
5:41 "The Moon's super thick backside" is not a phrase I was expecting to hear today
The moon sounds like the wife 😂
@@robsmithracing Thicc moon
it needs that so it can moon ofc
She thicc
🤣👍
That we've known what the other side of the moon has looked like for only about 60 years of humanity's entire existence is just astounding. Although we still have a long way to go, our progress over the past 100-150 years is mind-boggling to think about.
Fitting to have an episode about the dark side of the moon on the 50th anniversary of "The Dark Side of the Moon"
My goodness, I didn't even put that together. Good point.
There is no dark side of the moon, there are only the near and far side of the moon. In actuality, the far side of the moon gets slightly more sunlight than the near side, so it's not "dark" at all.
@@TheRealSkeletorPink Floyd begs to differ
@Skeletor Jopko the far side gets less light. Cause the near side also gets earthshine.
@@ofjeworstlust69 I was talking about the moon itself. The Pink Floyd album is the only correct usage of the term "The Dark Side of the Moon".
What I would like to know is if these kinds of patterns can be observed on tidally locked moons of other planets in this solar system as well. Would really help validate these theories
There are many other tidally locked things in the solar system.
Both of Mars's moons, all 4 big moons of Jupiter, Saturn's big moons, Pluto and Charon, are dual tidally locked to each other.
@@MrT------5743 Jupiter and Saturn both have over 80 known natural satellites.
Five of Uranus's moons and Triton are also tidally locked
@kourii yes I know they have many moons. But I didn't know off hand if they were tidally locked. I only knew about the ones.i mentioned.
But yeah, things being tidally locked is way more common than not being tidally locked.
It’s absolutely wild that until the 1960s we had absolutely no idea what the far side of the moon looked like. There could’ve been a massive alien base there where their anthropologists lived while observing us and we would’ve had no idea.
Well maybe but the far side would be a terrible place for a base since you can't observe the earth from that side.
@@isaacbruner65 But you could occasionally peek out and remain unnoticed 🫣👽
They managed to pack up and leave in time is what you're saying?
@@isaacbruner65 that's where the scientists lived and kept their pets and family etc. The telescopes were on the near side
There's another comment right above this saying the same thing. But considering the technology required in order to see it, I'm don't find it that shocking. For most of our time on Earth, we've been just another primate. Industrial revolution didn't even happen until a couple hundred years ago. That's how the golden spiral goes, there are these long boring parts that take forever before things finally get good.
I spent this entire video confused why the moon looked slightly odd. Then I remembered I'm in NZ and that most photos come from the Northern hemisphere. Duh.
"the moon's super-thicc backside"
Mooning the other planets.
Wow! This is the first time, ever, that my pre-watch guess was actually, potentially, confirmed (but in better detail). I think I'm learning how to think...thanks, SciShow! My guess was the tidally-locked convection imbalance.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN CONVECTION
Isn't that such a fantastic feeling though? Drawing conclusions, coming up with an idea, then having it not just confirmed but fleshed out as you learn more... it's one of the reasons I love this channel. ♥
I imagine KREEP is a SUPER valuable resource to mine once the Moon becomes commercialized.
Also part of me now kinda wants a custom-made coin that has the near side of the lunar map etched on one side and the far side on the other.
wait potassium..
B A N A N A M O O O N
KRIS GET THE MOON
there storys get better and better every time
I always just assumed that a) tidal forces caused the close side to stay hotter for longer, thus forming a thinner crust, and b) the far side gets bombarded more because it's not blocked by the earth.
"The Moon's super thick backside"
Made me chuckle
We should get the moon spinning again so we can use it for heads or tails
Elon musks next idea
Flat Earth...flat Moon...😏😎🤫🤭
That would piss off the aliens on the reverse side.
heck now I want that coin
2:36 Of course this isn't to scale. It made me chuckle, but I guess if it isn't already obvious to anyone watching this, then it's pretty important to point that out.
If it was we'd probably notice it just from the changes in gravity under our feet!
You can’t underestimate people enough is my motto too.
"Not to scale" is also used as a joke sometimes when things are very obsiouly out of scale
I was really hoping for a video about our no good, backstabbing, sheet talking moon but this is almost as great ❤
I love this new hypothesis.
"because in chemistry K stands for potassium": it's more because in chemistry K stands for "Kalium", which is the Latin name for potassium that a lot of languages still use.
It has the same origin as "alkali metal", the first few of which are lithium (Li), Sodium (Na, or natrium in other languages), and Potassium (K: kalium).
I’ve seen that young Optimus prime moon rock collection. They came to my homies school in 2011 Firebaugh (Lynwood, CA). He showed me the images and they had two NASA officialS with keys to unlock the moon rock samples FROM the briefcase. His teacher pulled a few strings. Never seen material like that on earth.
Every time "baby moon" gets mentioned in these videos, I hear "do do, do do".
I'm sorry, I couldn't contain myself at 5:40 when Stefan mentioned the moon's "super thicc backside" ROFL
Great. Now I can't stop thinking about the Moon's super thick backside...
"Moon's super thick backside..." So she phat. Nice😂
Also an effect of the KREEP means nearside is generally low land and far side is high land. The collision theory would also supported by the presence of two core structures inside the Earth-which is a recent finding.
So, the moon's got back?😆
The moon's got a thick backside.
Really interesting!
SO you tellin' me a Kreep is always looking at us?
A weirdo even. What the hell is it doing here?
Pretty cool🌓
5:41 I see what you did there, The moon has a super thick backside to moon with XD
Hi Stefan!
I'm a KREEP
I'm a melter
What the hell am I doin here
SciShow will tell yah
...I’m a so f’n special, I’m just a kreep...I don’t belong here. 😏🤷♂️👍🏻👌🏻😎
The energy coming from the molten earth and spreading out as it crossed the distance between the Earth and moon should have been significantly attenuated according to the inverse square law. Would it have significantly influenced the cooling rate of the moon?
Since hot-spot volcanism on earth is thought to be antipodal to large impacts, are moon maria possibly the result of antipodal impacts during the late heavy bombardment? Was the moon tidally locked already by then? 🤔
Two Face: “What’s so bad about having more than one face?”
If some geomorphologists suggest the Moon's tidal gravity has had a powerful influence on the Earth's tectonic plates (especially in the early years when the Moon was much closer to Earth), why then wouldn't the Earth have a similar effect on the young Moon, stirring up lava traps on the nearest side.
Mars might also be an example of volcanism, triggered by large asteroids hitting the side directly opposite Mons Olympus and the three Tharsis Montes.
The far side is always facing out, so it captures more of the galactic debris raining in. Same way some moons that revolve around Saturn's rings look like ravioli or walnuts.
Really the backside of the moon if they really knew one would hear more about it. One thing no one has gone to the moon and never will
My hypothesis: The moon froze in a pangea phase, with all thick crust concentrated on one side. And the lopsided distribution of mass stabilised the tidal locking with the crust facing outside.
That's interesting but doesn't address WHY there's a Pangaea phase in the first place.
@@isaacthek That's just one of the intermittent states you'll have as long as there are still continents drifting around. Earth has gone through, how many? Three?
Accretion of a companion is how I met my wife.
5:37 “Super Thicc back side”😂
Also, the far-side would've had more asteroids, etc., colliding with it over those millions of years, adding even more mass onto what was already the heavier side!
Three faces for me the color gives off some inversion and craters turn into hills.. this also sounds like an example for one side being hollow while other side being packed..
Note this would make the moon a cup..
“8 billion people need 16 billion faces.”
Hey, be nice to the moom, that ball of cheese has feelings too!
Maria are actually glass windows for the “others” to monitor us all the time. 🤣
"Doctors say they must operate soon, but there's no knowing what they'll find when they open up the wound - I will meet you on the other side of the moon..."
Why can't I 👍 this episode?
I'm definitely ordering my next pizza with a kreepy crust!
The moon! Can we trust him?
- Batman.
"The moon's super thick backside." So you're telling me our moon got junk in the trunk 😏
Why does it have to be called Kreep? zerglings love it
I thought that kreep was the area of influence where the Zerg could construct buildings
The Moon only has one face. That bright thing in the center left is an orb if people care to look again and more closely. Also, it's not gray. It's a bright light. Obviously.
How ironic that the dark side of the moon is actually bright!👍✨
Heavier iron sinks below the bottom and we view it lower earth looking up it heavier base?
Actually we are not pretty sure the moon was created by a collision. That hypothesis has some big hurdles it still has to get over.
Are there Flat Mooners?
If you join my flat moon club I'll give you a button.
Yes but they're rarer than flat earthers. Most flat earthers somehow believe that everything is a sphere EXCEPT earth, and the rest somehow believe that everything else is flat and facing us at all times. I'm not sure which is weirder!
@@awaredeshmukh3202 The former makes more sense to me when it comes to the purposes of Flat Earth. The primary point of Flat Earth is that Earth is not just some celestial object, it is the foundation of reality as described in the Bible, the "firmament". So they believe that the reason why there is a conspiracy to make the Earth seem to be a sphere is that it is meant to make the Earth's place in the universe less special. Earth's "just another planet", and it revolves around the sun, so it's not the center. It is not the foundation of the Universe, it is just another ball floating in space, there's no true up or down, positions are not absolute but relative. That's the reality, but some fundamentalist Christian evangelicals can't handle it.
Junk science is a major component of Flat Earth but it's important to remember that the main driving motivation for it has relatively little to do with the shape of the Earth. It's all just evangelicalism and a whole lot of projection. Junk science is kinda par for the course when it comes to modern fundamentalist apologetics, to try and create the impression of legitimacy, but modern Flat Earth is kind of its own little weird club within that group that of course intersects with a bunch of other conspiratorial thinking that kinda gets folded into it, like the whole "world tree" thing. I like to point this all out when Flat Earth gets mentioned because it sometimes gets misunderstood as just people who are ignorant about science and are relying purely on their senses and intuition which can make the world appear to be pretty flat, and building their own quasi-scientific framework around that to try and explain the phenomena that occur specifically because the Earth is round. And there's some of that, there's a lot of "trust your eyes, not science" talking points, but the reasoning is a lot more motivated than people who think Flat Earthers are just idiots realize. More motivated and honestly a little more scary. But at least it's not a big club lol
SUPERDRY, not sure why I felt compelled to write that.
We should call the moon "Two Face Harvey"
Why did you ignore the relative high concentration of KREEP in the antipodal region of the map you first showed? In fact, every image of KREEP that I’ve seen shows BOTH sides, suggesting that y’all deliberately edited it out? I’m not saying it’s malicious, but saying that it’s ONLY on the near side, when in fact there’s clear evidence of (lesser yes) concentrations directly antipodal to the map you showed (on the far side) makes it seem like you’re leaving something out.
Don’t you think the gravity of the more massive Earth might have pulled the molten center of the early Moon towards the near side, causing the maria to well up through the surface?
No because tidal forces are symmetric. There is a pull of stuff on the near side towards the earth. But there is also a pull of everything away from the stuff on the far side (because they are closer to Earth than it is), causing a second bulge there. Why there would be a tide on the other side of the gravitational pull confused everybody until Newton found a way to work out what is going on.
Could gravity have a small affect on the cause of the differences?
The reason the moon is tidal locked is a lunar deep impact that penetrated the far side and embedded itself deep on the opposite side from entry. This mass is electromagnetically attracted to our cores dynamo. The reason the moon isn’t more like earth is when impacted the mantle was super thick with little liquid remaining and the bullet was captured like a catchers glove. The imbalanced core has no choice but to stay pointing at us.
Quite simple
Wonder if that's where they got it from for StarCraft (Zerg creep).
Have you done a video on synapsids
moon is not what you think is. it's not physical body, it's a mirror from firmament. a plasma. this is why "moon" is so shiny and bright.
moon is our shield
Not hardly, it is just as likely to cause an impact as preventing one.
all i learned is the moon has a super thick backside
There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact, it’s all dark.
Short answer: the heavy side stays toward Earth. Long answer: but WHY is there a heavy side?
NASA is hilarious. First they sent Apollo, now they're sending Artemis?
And before they sent a satellite named Juno to check on Jupiter.?
y'all crack me up
5:18 No one escapes gravity!
Piano!
So, science is now saying that _The moon has a dumpy._
Careful with that axe, Eugene...
Because it's a DC comics villain.
Let's spin it 180°
Ok, but WHY is the top material of the moon older and the deeper you dig the younger the material.
There is a simple answer to your question: "Why is the moon two-faced?" The answer is because the moon is awesome. I know, I know....science demands a more detailed answer. But here's the skinny, the whole universe exists so that we can observe it. We exist so that the universe can be observed. We've been gifted life at this point in time to be amazed by all the discovery, and I for one am fairly jealous of future generations and the discoveries they will make.
Cool, Thanks
the moon is a pixar mom confirmed
I thought the blue was that giant creature at the bottom of the ocean
so the zerg were there at one point with all the kreep
how do i get that shirt?
More like why the Moon is the space face of the Earth. Maybe alot of lighter crust went to the far side.
Hello there
Coz it's a Batman Villain
Does KREEP creep? Why yes, yes it does. 🤷♂️😏😎
Strange to focus on NASA's mission to the moon, which is scheduled for next year, when India and Russia both have moon missions scheduled this Summer.
Someone has to cleanup the crash sites. 🤷♂️😏😎
Creep? Like the zerg?
So what you’re saying is that the man in the moon is a KREEP?
There was a moon hunger games
So, KREEP elements have higher melting points but lower vaporization points? Something doesn't add up.
That is very much possible.
I mean, dissolving something in a liquid lowers the freezing temperature and raises the boiling temperature...
But I'm a Kreep......
...so fun special 🎵🎶😏🤷♂️😎👍🏻👌🏻
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here. This is the moon and I can't breathe
The side facing us is so thin, because Cave Johnson bought most of the rock from it
Beofre this video I thought it was really obvious that the Earth would shield one side from meteor impacts and this asymmetry would cause the moon to develop differently.
center of gravity of moon is nearer to earths side because of earth's gravity
"It's because of moon men living inside the hollow moon."
-Kyrie Irving, probably
lunarians are at it again
Get real, all real scientists know the earth is flat and the moon is a hologram. And we all know that holograms aren't hollow or lived in.
Uhm jk.
Everytime he says creep:
Me: What is it?