What does the other side of the moon look like?

Question

Surely our astronauts that have orbited the moon have seen it but I've never seen nor heard of their observations.

Answer 1

there is a large black monolith on the dark side the U.S. gov. doesn't want you to know about, also don't want people exposed to the shrill noise it produces

Answer 2

The Soviets were actually the first to photograph it with an orbiter.

It has more craters and they're evenly distributed - not like the side we can see, which has large dark areas (the "Man in the Moon") with almost no craters.

Here it is, complete with photos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon

BTW the responder who said it doesn't "get as much light" is wrong. When the moon is in its New phase, the side we see is pointed towards us and the "Far Side" is pointed directly at the sun.

In the moon's 28 day orbit aound us, both sides get an equal amount of sunlight.

Big Al Mintaka

Answer 3

Heavily cratered like the Earthside, but the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, always presenting the same (heavier) hemisphere to us, which is denser and contains a greater proportion of Titanium, as compared with the Farside, which contains more Aluminium compounds.

Answer 4

Area 51's test ground

Answer 5

It kind of looks like the side of the moon we can see but just maybe sometimes darker because the light does not hit it.

Answer 6

Here is a picture ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon


Another one:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981008.html


If you really want to get up close, try the downloads from this website -- it's like you are right there.

http://www.solarviews.com/cap/moon/farside.htm

Answer 7

Ask Pink Floyd.