What does the other side of the moon look like?

Question

Here I am in Britain UK and every time I see a full moon,it looks just the same with the same craters.

Answer 1

Just do a google image search for moon dark side.  There are several, but one of them looks like it's just the familiar side, darkened.

Answer 2

In 1969 man landed on the Moon, many photo's were taken of all sides of the Moon so the information is out there to be found, so get looking.

Answer 3

Dark for a guess ?

Answer 4

there are lots of pictures of the far side, taken by astronuts and robots. lots of craters, few maria. it looks different from the near side.

only scintific idiots talk about the dark side. there is no such thing!

Answer 5

It's darker.

Answer 6

The other side of the Moon looks pretty much the same except for the small, alien refueling port.

Answer 7

There are over 160 moons in our solar system, but I'm guessing you're referring to Earth's moon.  The moon is tidally locked to Earth so the near side of the moon is forever facing Earth.  The far side is also pock marked with numerous craters.

Craters are valuable, since you can fill them up with water, phytoplankton and iron sulfate to make Oxygen and CCNs (cloud condensation nuclei).  Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton release DMS, dimethyl sulfide, that is  converted to sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere.  Water vapor clings to CCN's and dust to form clouds.

Cloud cover helps block out gamma, uv and x-rays on any given moon or planet.  While a magnetic field would block out cosmic rays.  Superconducting Rings between 4 to 14 Tesla can theoretically create a magnetic field.  It would be positioned horizontally and would probably be sealed in a tank of liquid helium to keep it super cooled.

Restaurants and Lager houses on every moon!

Answer 8

Recent article on the subject:

May issue of American Scientist.

Geology, magnetics appearance, the works!

Available on their website

More than you ever wanted to know.

Answer 9

Earth's moon is tidally locked to the earth.  This means the moon always points the same side towards the earth so we never see the other side.

Note the moon does rotate on its axis so there is no perpetually "dark side" of the moon.  When we have a New Moon (all dark to us on earth) it is the other side of the moon that is in full sunlight.

See link below for a picture of the opposite side of the moon (one of the Apollo missions orbited the moon and snapped that photo).  Note it has many more craters since that side is always facing away from the earth it catches far more meteor impacts.

Answer 10

a lot of people don't realize that the aliens that have been monitoring the Earth for millennia, but then suddenly disappeared... left us a message on the far side of the Moon.

Unfortunately, they wrote it in alien.

Can anyone read this?  I need a translation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MoonL...

"Don't <something> Eggs"  i think.

Answer 11

Oh, Moon, you shine so bright

I am sorry i shall never see thy glorious behind...

Answer 12

The first time we have photos from the hidden side of the Moon was after a soviet space probe that travel behind the Moon so the craters in this side have Russian names. The hidden side of the Moon have more craters that the visible side, cause  the visible side have the Earth working like a shield and the impacts would have more kinetic energy (the gravity of the Earth accelerate the space bodies).

The first time  two humans saw the hidden side (without photos) was when the Apollo 8th were behind the Moon.

Answer 13

Much like the side we see, but it is more heavily cratered - the large "seas" we see, darker areas - aren't as numerous or as large on the far side.

Answer 14

The moon makes one revolution around its own axis at the same time it takes for it to make one orbit around earth. This leads me to tidal locking.

Tidal Locking is a mutual gravitational pull from one object to the other; making one object (the lesser mass of the two) wobble and always face the same way.

The far side of the Moon was not seen in its entirety until 1959, when photographs were transmitted from the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3.

Here's a picture of the other side of the moon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Moon_...