If something about this animation strike you as unfamiliar , do n’t concern , you ’re not ideate things ; though the Moon does rotate about its axis as it orbits Earth , you ’ve never in your life seen it whirl quite like this .
The Moon istidally locked to Earth , forever hiding one of its brass from those of us give up it planetside . owe to a phenomenon known as libration , it ’s in reality potential to make out as much as 59 % of the Moon ’s surface . But the remaining 41 % – the so - called “ far side , ” was for many old age a sodding whodunit .
https://gizmodo.com/dark-side-of-the-earth-what-would-happen-if-our-planet-5980667
https://gizmodo.com/the-most-beautiful-video-of-the-moon-weve-seen-in-ages-5890052
But this picture , created from images returned by NASA ’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , offers us an entirely different opinion of the Moon – one that bringsits enigmatic far - sideinto clear ( and , wayward to its “ dark - side ” misnomer , clearly well-lighted ) view :
https://gizmodo.com/beautiful-astrogeological-maps-reveal-the-moons-mysteri-5866790
https://gizmodo.com/say-hello-to-the-moons-true-dark-side-5901120
ViaNASA APOD :
Theabove metre - lapse videostarts with the standard Earthview of the Moon . Quickly , though , Mare Orientale , a turgid crater with a dark center that is hard to see from the Earth , rotates into view just below the equator . From an entirelunar monthcondensed into 24 bit , the video clearly shows that the Earth side of the Moon contains an abundance ofdark lunar maria , while the lunar far side is dominate by brightlunar highlands . Twonew missionsare scheduled to begin explore the Moon within the year , the first of which is NASA’sLunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer(LADEE ) . LADEE , whichlaunchedjust over a week ago , is scheduled to begin revolve the Moon in October and will explore the thin and unusualatmosphere of the Moon . In a few months , theChineseChang’e 3is schedule to plunge , a missionary post that let in a soft lander that will dispatch a automatonlike rover .
Beautiful . Now if only we could get similar timelapses for some of our solar sytem’sother lunation . Do these be ? Maybe for some Saturnian satellites , made from Cassini images ? GIF party , anyone ?
https://gizmodo.com/10-moons-every-person-should-know-5892559
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