SCIENCE’S GREATEST MYSTERIES: The Far Side of the Moon

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Bilibili | 1 x 60’ | BBC Studios

In 1959, a Russian space probe, Luna 3, took the first ever images of the far side of the Moon, the side that until this moment had been hidden from us. The iconic images shocked the science world, revealing the far side to appear completely different from the familiar near side. Since this moment, scientists around the globe have found more puzzling and unexplained differences between the Moon’s two sides. They’ve been spending over half a century trying to understand why.

This episode explores the mystery of the far side of the Moon, and follows the three different theories attempting to make sense it. Now, with the Chinese Space Agency recently becoming the first ever to land on the Moon’s far side, and NASA releasing new Apollo samples that have been locked up for over 50 years, solving this mystery of the far side is closer than ever before.

Filming locations: USA (Arizona), China, France, UK.