NASA’s lunar probes will test theory of why one side of the moon is lopsided

She hangs there nightly, a yellow or white or spookily orange disk, the bringer of tides, the caster of romantic shadows. She waxes and wanes and sometimes she turns ruddy as the shadow of the Earth crosses her face. For all her beauty, though, our moon hides a lumpy, unflattering secret: She's lopsided. Her backside is much thicker than her front. And no one knows why.

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Peter Wallsten 02 Jan, 2012
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