The Moon as a whole remains a mystery and more research is needed to unravel it. Is the Moon a natural body? Or is it artificial? What secrets are hidden on the unseen backside of the Moon? The far side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces away from Earth, opposite to the near side, because of synchronous rotation in the Moon’s orbit. The hemisphere is sometimes called the “dark side of the moon”, where “dark” means “unknown” instead of “lacking sunlight.”
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