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The far side of the Moon, or ‘dark side of the moon’, is the hemisphere of the Moon that always faces away from Earth. The far side’s terrain is rugged, with a multitude of impact craters and relatively few flat lunar maria. It has one of the largest craters in the Solar System, the South Pole–Aitken basin.
About 18 percent of the far side is occasionally visible from Earth due to libration. The remaining 82 percent remained unobserved until 1959, when the Soviet Union’s Luna 3 space probe photographed it. The Russian Academy of Sciences published the first atlas of the far side in 1960. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission’s astronauts
were the first humans to view this region directly when they orbited
the Moon. To date, no one has explored the far side of the Moon on the
ground.
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NASA releases first ever moving images of dark side of the Moon ~ Video
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