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The Far Side of the Moon -- And All the Way Around
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NASA image release March 11, 2011 Caption: The lunar farside as never seen before! LROC WAC orthographic projection centered at 180° longitude, 0° latitude. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University. Because the moon is tidally locked (meaning the same side always faces Earth), it was not until 1959 that the farside was first imaged by the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft (hence the Russian names for prominent farside features, such as Mare Moscoviense).
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Credit lineThe Far Side of the Moon -- And All the Way Around. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001939.
