LEEDS: Wonder no more as NASA has released an animation of the moon’s other side, created by the agency’s Scientific Visualization Studio.
In the video, the far side is shown as going through a complete cycle of the phases, much like what the side visible from Earth, the near side, would look like.
The far side is also home to one of the largest and oldest impact features in the solar system, the South Pole-Aitken basin, visible here as a slightly darker bruise covering the bottom third of the disk.
Today, a closer look at the dark side is possible because of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which went into space some 50 years after the probe.
