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Nov 27, 2022 · William Adama, the “dark” side of the Moon is only dark from Earth because the Moon is tidally locked with Earth. The Moon gets equal amounts of light on all its sides during its 27.3 Earth-day orbit around us.
Jan 23, 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.
Mar 21, 2011 · NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe has snapped the most detailed picture yet of the far side of the moon. The new image is part of new global map of the moon for future lunar...
Aug 5, 2015 · The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. The images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth.
Jul 16, 2015 · A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a unique view of the Moon as it passed between the spacecraft and Earth. A series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the Moon that is not visible from Earth.
Sep 26, 2017 · The dark spot to the southeast of Tsiolkovskiy is the crater Jules Verne. The mare in the northeast is Moscoviense. In October 1959, the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft took the first photo of the farside of the Moon - a region never before seen by human eyes.
Jan 30, 2023 · The far side — sometimes incorrectly referred to as the “dark side” — remained hidden from human eyes until 1959, when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft first snapped photos of it.
Jun 4, 1998 · Earth's Moon. Ultraviolet/Visible Camera. Mare Moscoviense (dark albedo feature upper left of image center) and South Pole-Aitken Basin (dark feature at bottom) represent maria regions largely absent on the lunar farside in this image from NASA's Clementine spacecraft.
Oct 4, 2017 · On the right-hand side of the image is seen the dark maria of Oceanus Procellarum, also visible from the Earth. 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.
Aug 6, 2015 · The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. The images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth.