The image above is an illumination map of the moon's south pole. It's a composite image built up from more than 1,700 photographs captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter over a six month period.

Thanks to a long-lasting orbiter, scientists have been able to create a detailed map of the surface of the moon, including the dark side, which never points toward earth. The Lunar Reconnaissance ...

This puts east and west opposite to what we're used to on Earth maps. ... When observing the dark side of the moon, keep your eyes peeled for tiny flashes of light: lunar meteors.

The far side of the moon is foreverhidden from the nakedeye on Earth, but now scientists have developed a simple way todescribe how itlooks, and in doing so could shed light on its enigmatic history.

Instead, craters of all sizes cover the entire area. In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe sent back the first grainy images of the moon’s dark side.

A NASA Telescope on the Moon’s Far Side Would Explore the Universe’s ‘Dark Ages’ NASA and the Department of Energy are collaborating on the ambitious lunar experiment, called LuSEE-Night.

While the far side of the moon is dark in the sense that it’s unfamiliar, it isn’t dark in the sense that it’s deprived of sunlight, as is sometimes surmised. Instead, the far side of the moon ...