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The far side of the Moon, with Mare Marginis and Mare Smythii visible, photographed by Apollo 16 in 1972. It is much more cratered than the near side of the Moon. It has been seen by all 24 men who flew on Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 through Apollo 17, and photographed by multiple lunar probes.
3 de may. de 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.
27 de nov. de 2022 · The Earth is seen setting from the far side of the Moon just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this video taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays.
29 de abr. de 2019 · Being shielded from civilization means the far side of the moon is “radio dark.” There, researchers can measure weak signals from the universe that would otherwise be drowned out.
26 de sept. de 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.
On the far side of the Moon, the Moon phases are exactly opposite to the ones we see from Earth. When we see the Moon fully illuminated at Full Moon, the far side is in darkness. When it is New Moon here, it’s Full Moon on the far side. Is the Moon upside-down in the other hemisphere?
23 de ene. de 2020 · The new images give us the sharpest look ever at the landscape of the far side of the moon, just as the robots wake up from a two-week slumber.
