I'm very curious, my dad says no one has landed on the dark side of the moon and my astronomy prof said that they took pictures of it and there's alot of craters on the dark side...
2007-06-20 11:07:08 · 17 answers · asked by Duchess of Cookieshire 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
well, er, i meant the far side i guess :). but my prof said referred to it as the dark side.
2007-06-20 11:13:56 · update #1
oh y'all know what i mean when i say 'dark side of the moon' so please forgive me and stop saying 'there's no dark side of the moon'!
2007-06-20 16:20:49 · update #2
Both your dad and your astronomy professor are correct. The far side of the Moon is very heavily cretaered. In contrast to the side that we see it is more or less entirely devoid of the darker 'seas'. No-one had landed there because they would have been out of contact with Earth without some kind of satellite relay system. NASA did briefly consider such a system during the Apollo program, but when the Apollo budget was slashed they abandoned it as too expensive and risky.
The far side has been extensively photographed, by unmanned probes and by the Apollo astronauts. I suggest you look at a couple of these websites.
2007-06-20 11:20:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jason T 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's OK, lots of people refer to the far side as the dark side.
While no space craft have landed on the far side, many have photographed it from orbit. It has more craters and fewer of the dark "seas" (really dry planes, but they are called seas because that is what they looked like to the early astronomers) than the near side. Otherwise, it isn't all that much different than the near side.
2007-06-20 19:19:18 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many, many craters on the dark side. The only reason astronauts did not land there was because they would have been out of radio communications with Earth. The dark side of the moon is always facing away from our planet, but we have sent unmanned spacecraft to fly over the dark side for purposes of mapping that side of the moon.
2007-06-20 18:56:45 · answer #3 · answered by tracyterry 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Again? There is no dark side of the Moon, just one side which is never visible from the Earth.
When we see a "half moon" clearly the other illuminated half is in the side we don't see, which then is not always dark.
What happens is that a Moon's day, around 28 days, is equal to the time it takes to the Moon to complete an orbit around the Earth. That's why we always see the same face of it.
2007-06-20 18:17:49 · answer #4 · answered by NaughtyBoy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if its the dark side of the moon its pretty obvious that no one knows. Maybe one day you could go see for yourself. But im pretty sure its the same as the non-dark side of the moon whatever you call it. Craters and stuff.
2007-06-20 20:47:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sorry there is no dark side of the moon. They get there fair share of light back there.
2007-06-20 22:40:41 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really sure myself what's there, BUT, I do plan on seeing Pink Floyd on that side someday!!
Besides THERE IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, IT'S ALL DARK!!
Much LOVE to Barrett, and Waters!!!
2007-06-20 18:17:44 · answer #7 · answered by spaz10_2000 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no side of the moon that is permanently dark.
If you mean the far side of the moon, it is more rough than the near side. there are no large "seas" of dried lava, like you see on the near side.
2007-06-20 18:10:27 · answer #8 · answered by Randy G 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You can see a photo of the dark side here:
http://www.nmazca.com/hellastellar/darkside.jpg
2007-06-20 18:16:35 · answer #9 · answered by Wren )O( 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Us and them, Time, Money
2007-06-21 03:46:34 · answer #10 · answered by dark bubble 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋