Here's a sped-up view of that process as seen from the moon's far side in an animation created by NASA's Science Visualization Studio: We see a new moon when the dark side faces Earth, and a full ...
Scientists analyzed the first and only rock samples from the region, which were brought back to Earth as part of a recent ...
Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, ...
A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.
The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year.
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