"Dark side of the moon"

[Cru Jones]

Click here for a recently published GIF of the moon passing between a satellite and the Earth with the sun behind the satellite (in other words, you can see the "dark side of the moon" all lit up with the Earth behind in the sun).



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...NvHj-GI.mailto

[joe100]

Awesome shot! However you have to love the nasa acronyms.

[Keith1]

Wow, just beautiful! Now I can see what Pink Floyd wrote about!

[The Joker]

Ya don't have to click the linky.

[SearChart]

I saw it on the NASA Instagram page, very beautiful

[capote]

Originally Posted by Keith1

Wow, just beautiful! Now I can see what Pink Floyd wrote about!

Well they concluded: "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark"

[crew]

Very cool.
Thanks for sharing.

[Abdullah71601]

Originally Posted by capote

Well they concluded: "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark"

There is a front side and a back side, but all sides catch some sun during the month (hence the shape of the illuminated area). We can only see the front side (it doesn't spin), so some people assumed the back side was dark.

Cool images, but I didn't see the secret base they say is on the dark side.

[SearChart]

Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

There is a front side and a back side, but all sides catch some sun during the month (hence the shape of the illuminated area). We can only see the front side (it doesn't spin), so some people assumed the back side was dark.

Cool images, but I didn't see the secret base they say is on the dark side.

The moon does spin but makes a complete spin in the same time as it turns around our planet, that's why we always see one side of the moon.

[AzPaul]

Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

Cool images, but I didn't see the secret base they say is on the dark side.

Secret base? We don't know nothing about no secret base