We Just Landed on the Far Side of the Moon for the First Time! | SciShow News

The new year is off to a great start for space exploration! New Horizons has passed the farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, and China put a lander on the dark side of the Moon! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://eos.org/articles/new-horizons-sends-first-looks-of-2014-mu69 http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190103 http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190102 https://eos.org/articles/lander-gives-first-look-at-moons-farside https://spacenews.com/change-4-relay-satellite-enters-halo-orbit-around-earth-moon-l2-microsatellite-in-lunar-orbit/ http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Mechanics/lagpt.html https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/comm_orbiters.html Images: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/index.php?page=2019-01-03 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20180912_6258TPS-TPR-2018Q3-18-09-04-p14legacy.png http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/2019-01-03/960x540/Slide17.jpeg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-NewHorizons-KuiperBelt-UltimaThule-20181227.jpg http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/2019-01-03/960x540/Slide13.jpeg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA21867-2014MU69-BinaryObject-ArtConcept-20170804.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_color_image_of_Ultima_Thule_(composite_crop).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-01_Stern_03_Pluto_Color_TXT.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_hottest_and_most_massive_touching_double_star.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_67P_on_14_March_2015_%E2%80%93_NavCam.jpg http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/index.php?page=2019-01-03 http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/2019-01-03/960x540/Slide24.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Pole%E2%80%93Aitken_basin_on_the_Moon%27s_farside.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change4_landing_site.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lagrange_points_simple.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RelaisSatellit.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lagrangianpointsanimated.gif Thumbnail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Back_side_of_the_Moon_AS16-3021.jpg