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RE: First CubeSats Aboard for Artemis I Mission
I understand the prevailing theory to be that the moon is essentially a big chunk of the Earth. That's likely the reason that the same part of the moon always faces the Earth.
Exciting, huh?
Is it the one referred to as the giant-impact theory? I just read on it.
That makes sense because the idea is that something large hit the mass that was the precursor to earth as it is now. A chunk of the planetary mass broke off, and ended up staying gravitationally locked in orbit! 👍