When the ground had two moon

In 1959, the Soviet Station Luna-3 took the first photos of the reverse side of the moon. Even in poor resolution of the image, scientists were stunned: the reverse side looked like a huge space of mountain massifs, and not like extensive lava plains that cover the side visible from the ground. Subsequent missions with high -quality pictures confirmed this discovery. Why does the moon look like that and can it say something about our place in the universe? It turns out that maybe quite a lot.
In the book “When the Earth had two Moon”, the famous planetologist Eric Asfog sends us on an exciting journey in the most distant times of our Galaxy to find out why the moon is so different. Interestingly written, with provocative arguments, this book is not only a dizzying astronomical tour, but also a deep study of the origin of life billions of kilometers from our house