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The far side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces away from Earth, opposite to the near side, because of synchronous rotation in the Moon's orbit. Compared to the near side, the far side's terrain is rugged, with a multitude of impact craters and relatively few flat and dark lunar maria ("seas"), giving it an appearance closer ...
4 feb 2017 · We're looking along the imaginary line connecting the Earth and the Moon. From this vantage point, the Moon will be full soon, but on Earth, it's a waning crescent. The far side of the Moon has fewer of the smooth, dark spots, called maria, that cover the side that faces Earth.
29 apr 2019 · The far side of the moon sees its share of sunlight. With all due respect to Pink Floyd, the moon's far side is dark only in the sense that it's mysterious. Here's why.
3 mag 2024 · There’s no real “dark side” of the moon, but the far side, which faces away from Earth, is different from the near side we see every day. Samples could reveal why.
26 set 2017 · The far side of the Moon is surprisingly different. The most striking difference evident in the Luna 3 pictures is the absence of the large, dark seas of cooled lava, called maria, that cover a substantial fraction of the Earth-facing near side. The far side is instead densely peppered with impact craters of every size and age.
4 ott 2017 · The dark spots in the center are Mare Orientale, on the western limb of the nearside of the moon, a region barely visible from the Earth. This region and the bright far side highlands on the left have not been seen previously by a camera system such as the one on the Galileo spacecraft, which provides multispectral images of the lunar limb and ...
22 mag 2019 · Deborah Byrd. May 22, 2019. The near side of the moon (left) looks very different from the far side. Image via NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/GSFC/Arizona State University/ Slate. We’ve...
