NASA showed us invisible side of the moon

Side of the moon, hidden from human eyes, out of the shadows, thanks to NASA. The video, created using map data from the probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), shows part of the lunar surface, which is not visible from the Ground. The invisible side of the satellite is sometimes called "dark". But it's not. It is illuminated by sunlight in the same way as the other side which is always facing our planet.

The far side is the same as the near side passes a full cycle of phases. However, it is different terrain. It lacks the large dark spots, making the visible side of the moon looks like a human face, — it is told in message NASA.

The video was created based on the images collected from the LRO in 2009. For the first time side of the moon was photographed by the Soviet automatic interplanetary station "Luna-3" in 1959.



From Earth we always see only one side of the moon. This is due to the tides which cause our planet in the lunar crust. The only one who saw dark side of the moon with your own eyes is a member of the crew of the spacecraft "Apollo-8" circling of Earth's natural satellite in 1968.

Orbiter NASA, equipped with a laser altimeter and camera, able to take the most detailed images of the part of the moon, which is inaccessible to our view from Earth. There is no lunar seas, but there are craters of different sizes, for example, the pool South pole – the largest known impact crater in the Solar system. By the way, in this area the European space Agency (ESA) plans to deploy a database from which to begin colonization of the moon.

Source: hi-news.ru