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The phrase "dark side of the Moon" does not refer to "dark" as in the absence of light, but rather "dark" as in unknown: until humans were able to send spacecraft around the Moon, this area had never been seen. [1] [2] [3] In reality, both the near and far sides receive (on average) almost equal amounts of light directly from the Sun.
For the past five years, a satellite orbiting nearly 1 million miles from home has been capturing images of the Earth, but early in its mission, it revealed a side of the planet's cosmic partner ...
NASA recently released this incredible photo that captured the "dark side of the moon" -- and it seems people have a lot to say about it.The image was taken during DSCOVR satellite voyage, which ...
Luna 3 phototelegraph system at Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics The first view returned by Luna 3 showed the far side of the Moon was very different from the near side, most noticeably in its lack of lunar maria (the dark areas) When the first image of the far side of the Moon (A) is restored using advanced noise-removal ...
The near side of the Moon, with major maria and craters labeled. The lunar maria (/ ˈ m ær i. ə / MARR-ee-ə; sg. mare / ˈ m ɑːr eɪ,-i / MAR-ay, MAR-ee) [1] are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by lava flowing into ancient impact basins.
The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co ...
[nb 7] In 2017, The Dark Side of the Moon was the seventh-bestselling album of all time in the UK and the highest-selling album never to reach number one. [113] As one of the blockbuster LPs of the album era (1960s–2000s), The Dark Side of the Moon also led to an increase in record sales overall into the late 1970s. [114]
The same rover and the mission’s lander had made history in 2019 as the first human objects to land on the far side of the moon – the side that faces away from the Earth.