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The Moon's Far Side is Hiding a Cosmic Secret About the Sun!

Photo: Mike Petrucci / Unsplash
For the first time ever, space rocks brought back from the dark far side of the Moon show that it gets battered by the solar wind much harder than the side we see. Earth's giant magnetic shield actually protects the near side of the Moon, leaving the far side to take a wild, cosmic beating. Who knew our giant rocky neighbor had two such completely different faces?
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