Why Have We Not Seen The Darkside Of The Moon?

[free_at_last]

Hey All,

It just popped into y head this morning, with all the technology we have like landing a rover on the surface of Mars, sending out probes far into the Universe, Video taping and photographing Planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto etc... even mapping Mars in such fine detail you could almost mistake it for parts of the Gobi desert.

WHY ARE THERE NO IMAGES OF THE DARKSIDE OF THE MOON??????

What is going on, why have they not had a look there yet considering it is a stones throw away. Maybe that's where they are hiding Henry Kissinger's Black Heart or maybe Saddam's WMD's. Anyhow just thought I would put that out there.

Free Out!

[comawhite015]

Yeah there are, I've got one. It's in a book called 'Cosmos' by Carl Sagan.

Yay for the Apollo satellite.

http://www.my-generation.org.uk/farside_apollo16.jpg

[endlessvista]

I never understood which it is so different looking that the earth side. It is completely convered in craters with no "seas".

http://www.dailysciencedose.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/moon-smaller.jpg

[the itinerant shrubber]

There are plenty of moon globes that show the dark side.

[michael christopher]

I've heard second-hand that there is actually a glowing crystal human face on the dark side of the moon. While I am open to all possibilities, including this one, I won't really give it any credence until I see some evidence (whether I see it out of body or in a photograph).

[venividivici2311]

There are plenty of moon globes that show the dark side.

Youre right,but not with all the little details ;)

[comawhite015]

I've heard second-hand that there is actually a glowing crystal human face on the dark side of the moon. While I am open to all possibilities, including this one, I won't really give it any credence until I see some evidence (whether I see it out of body or in a photograph).

Now THAT is one I haven't heard before. What a cool idea ! :D

[venividivici2311]

It is said that the dark side of the moon is riddled with bases,man and alien made!

[free_at_last]

In the 2 pictures above, is that the same Moon? if so why does one look so mashed up and the other much smoother?

[venividivici2311]

In the 2 pictures above, is that the same Moon? if so why does one look so mashed up and the other much smoother?

I don't know,maybe they are both fake???who knows...

[mephibosheth]

Folks, concerning the differences front to back, consider this:

The moon rotates almost the same rate it revolves around the earth, which means that its farside is never wholly visible to us, meaning its far side is exposed to the rest of the universe, while its near side is facing the earth. It stands to reason that most of the impacts would happen on the far side, where the meterorites are coming from, rather than the earth side, from which nothing cometh.

8)

[notthisshitagain]

What.. what THE fuck?! I thought the moon was made of cheese... :(

[supertzar]

expansions.com 1-17-09

NASA has revealed photos of the inside of craters from the dark side of the moon, taken by an Indian space vehicle.

What is so interesting is that some fo the pictures actually show what looks like tubes or objects, that NASA is saying is ice formations.

Again, I feel that this is imprinting for the "coming soon" alien invasion scenario. They will have a hard time convincing people that these tube structures are ice.

[supertzar]

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/imagecache/news/files/news/20090119_moon_crater.jpg
Never seen before: The image shows a radar strip overlain over an Earth-based, Arecibo Observatory radar telescope image of the Moon's surface. Taken Nov. 17, 2008, the radar strip shows a part of the Moon never seen before: a portion of Haworth crater that is permanently shadowed from Earth and the Sun. The only way to explore these regions is by using an orbital radar such as the Mini-SAR.

Credit: ISRO/NASA/JHUAPL/LPI/Cornell University/Smithsonian


First images of Moon's hidden craters
Monday, 19 January 2009

by Stephanie Stohr
Cosmos Online

SYDNEY: An orbiting Indian probe is sending back the first radar images of mysterious, previously hidden craters near the poles of the Moon.

India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, has captured the images with the help of a NASA-built radar device that is part of the probe's suite of scientific instruments.

The imaging technique can detect features as small as 150 metres wide, and is being used to map the far side of the Moon (hidden from view of the Earth) and search for evidence of water ice.

New resolution

"The only way to explore such areas is to use an orbital imaging radar," said Benjamin Bussey from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, USA. "This is an exciting first step for the team which has worked diligently for more then three years to get to this point."

Launched on 22 October 2008, from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Chandrayaan-1 has a two-year stint orbiting the Moon (see, India's spacecraft enters lunar orbit).

It will provide a detailed map of the mineral and chemical composition of the surface along with topography. This includes mapping the inside of dark craters that are permanently out of sight from both the Earth and the Sun.

New images taken with NASA's Mini-SAR (synthetic aperture radar) on November 17, 2008, are the first to show what these craters are made from, and what they look like.

One image shows part of the Haworth crater, near the Moon's south pole. Another, the western rim of the Seares crater, an impact feature near the Moon's north pole. The bright areas on the images show slopes coming out from the ground, or a rough surface.

Surprises to come

By collecting further data, scientists hope to establish if deposits of ice exist at the poles of the Moon. Although it is unlikely that the Moon naturally harbours its own deposits of water, some theories suggest that icy comets may have collided with the Moon in the past, leaving deposits of ice at its poles.

"The idea that a watery comet hit the moon, and that ice from that has survived is surprising – but it could happen," commented Malcolm Walter, an astrobiologist with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

"Whatever they find will be very interesting," he added. "Parts of the Moon are not well known, there are likely to be all sorts of surprises. As has happened with other planets, the more detailed the images we get, the more surprises we have."

Further radar observations of the Moon will be made with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), to be launched in April 2009.

[mephibosheth]

holy crap its a monolith!!! :eek::eek::eek:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/imagecache/news/files/news/20090119_moon_crater.jpg

[tom bombadil]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/images/moon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/&usg=___U2T1eFM4kQ8_GfMp8SjvhEYgCE=&h=843&w=739&sz=174&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=ObDbXbi81diOiM:&tbnh=145&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dimages%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmoon%26gbv%3D2%26 hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DG

our moon.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/images/071009-moon-picture.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071009-moon-picture.html&usg=__bkP-ONPXOfBltuDj1xJ3hFE-1-k=&h=461&w=461&sz=75&hl=en&start=23&tbnid=-RYZTVj_7nZX0M:&tbnh=128&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dimages%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmoon%26start%3D20 %26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefo x-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN

Saturns 'two tone' moon

[Ian2day]

Cause thats were the Reptillians hide :D