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Wonder of ScienceA full rotation of the Moon in high resolution created from photos captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200719.html
Credit: LRO/ASU/NASA
Askan ๐ช๐บ@wonderofscience
So finally also the dark side of the moon?
So finally also the dark side of the moon?
Muhammad Rifqi Priyo Susanto@askans far side* of the Moon
Florin Grozea@askans @wonderofscience exactly my 1st thought
joemcintyre@askans @wonderofscience There is not a permanently dark side of the moon. It is tidally locked with the earth so we only see the one side.
Agrarwuestenbewohner
Stargeezer Smith@wonderofscience
Love it. It helped me get a perspective on where Mare Orientale is.
Love it. It helped me get a perspective on where Mare Orientale is.
@wonderofscience thatโs cool but i donโt see anything left from the lunar landing?
JWK@only1bigcat @wonderofscience The landing sites are too small to be seen on this scal but the LRO camera team imaged all of the landing sites, for example http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/379
Philip SetnikThis is a tremendously cool thing and very well done...
...and it's impertinent of me...
...but the alt-text on this cracks me up. Shouldn't it be mentioned that "this is the moon?"
Just me? Ok....
writeblankspace ๐@psetnik @wonderofscience True! Though maybe it's redundant since the post text already says that it's the moon?
@writeblankspace @wonderofscience
Okay, that's fair!
Could have made a good album cover for Pink Floyd.
Troetifant@SpaceLifeForm
Only in a Harry Potter movie (or story) where motion pictures are possible.
Kam Smith
Tom Burbidge@wonderofscience @Gte beautiful
Grant Canterbury@wonderofscience This animation is hypnotically beautiful.
stephen ryner jr. ๐ฆ@wonderofscience @ctp part of the fascination is the video compression algorithm causing patches of moon to drag along at slightly different speeds ๐
Pretty Gnostic MachineMesmerizing! Thanks
RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur@wonderofscience Very cool! I've studied the moon for many years and this view is really a dream come true.
Vincent Wanders Aimlessly@wonderofscience
that is hypnotic. ๏ฟผ
that is hypnotic. ๏ฟผ
Anya๐ณ๏ธโ๐โจ@wonderofscience it's so weird to see the back side. It's obviously the moon, but also ... not, to my perceptions.
Steve Yanosky@iyalei @wonderofscience One amazing thing about the far side of the moon is how you can see some of the big hits from asteroids it takes. Makes me wonder how many times life on earth could have had a catastrophic end that was averted because the moon took the hit instead.
@Steve @wonderofscience interesting!
Christine Munro ๐ง@iyalei @wonderofscience Why is it looking at me funny? D:
Ehuff@wonderofscience that thing is operational!
RichardOntario@wonderofscience Yeah Very cool Now โsplain somethin here โMoonโ is the scientific name for these bodies out there rotating around a larger mass Right? Right So how is it nooooooo body has taken the initiative to name our Moon? Thatโs just wrong considering everything else out there has a moniker Somebody needs to start poll
Takiro ๐จThe name of our moon is Moon. The capital M makes the difference. At least in English.
tamaramilessc@wonderofscience I love this!
Hadi ๐ฌ๐ง
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Frank Breiningรberzeugt Euch selbst: Kein Mann, keine Hitlersรถhne, keine Reichsflugscheibe, keine kleinen Grรผnen.
Maria Petriello
Aviva Gary
AndyHagon 
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Amazing! Thanks for sharing ๐
Amazing! Thanks for sharing ๐
BlueVoter24@wonderofscience Why do I suspect there is a lot going on up there that we don't know anything about?
Computeforloot 
Ash Lawson
Ray N. Franklin ๐บ๐ธ@wonderofscience This would make a fantastic screen saver!
However, I would never get any work done. ๐
Bert Latamore@wonderofscience That is beautiful.. very easy to see the dividing line between near side and far side. And the far side certainly has a lot of lava flows.
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WrathofJan ๐๐ป๐๐@wonderofscience This is calming. ๐๐๐
Molly Timmins@wonderofscience Itโs a bowling ball!
Jenn Dize, Courage News
Sarah Burris 
@wonderofscience So it turns out there are no alien colonies on the dark side of the moon. I knew it!
Itโs beautiful!!
Silversalty@wonderofscience
The quirky aspects of the first image captured of the moon's far side.
https://www.rbth.com/history/332872-first-photographed-dark-side-moon
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At the time it was considered to be a fake. An impossible achievement for the time.
At the time it was considered to be a fake. An impossible achievement for the time.
Flying Spaghetti MonsterI simply wrapped a noodley appendage around the idle moon's equator and pulled like a rip cord.
The thing has been spinning ever since.
The tidal lock thing is a neat trick eh?
Phillip Moore@wonderofscience our brother moon has taken a lot of hits for us...... love ya man....
Clive Weeks@wonderofscience
This is so cool!
This is so cool!
William B. Turner@wonderofscience. Which is the dark side?
Humanist Engineer@wonderofscience I'm also a big fan of the lunar libration gif, which shows just how much the moon wobbles and how little it rotates.
Evelyn@wonderofscience Finally get to see the dark side of the moon!
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This is wondrous, brilliant
This is wondrous, brilliant