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		The far side of the moon is always facing away from Earth because of the force of gravity.
		When the moon is in the new moon stage, the far side of the moon is light.
		The moon's far side was a mystery until it was photographed in 1959 by a space probe.
	www.cord.edu /faculty/manning/physics215/studentpages/The_Far_Side.htm (99 words)

	NASA - Moon
		The highlands are the original crust of the moon, shattered and fragmented by the impact of meteoroids, asteroids, and comets.
		The remaining portion of the moon that faces Earth is faintly visible because of earthshine, sunlight reflected from Earth to the moon.
		Regolith overlies all the bedrock on the moon.
	www.nasa.gov /worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (6421 words)

	Moon - MSN Encarta
		The Moon is the second brightest object in Earth’s sky, after the Sun, and has accordingly been an object of wonder and speculation for people since earliest times.
		The average density of the Moon is only three-fifths that of Earth, and gravity at the lunar surface is only one-sixth as strong as gravity at sea level on Earth.
		The Moon rotates once on its axis in the same period of time that it circles Earth, accounting for the fact that virtually the same portion of the Moon (the “near side”) is always turned toward Earth.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573665/Moon.html (1009 words)

	Far side of the Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The opposite side is known as the near side of the Moon.
		The far side should not be confused with the "dark side" (the hemisphere that is not illuminated by the Sun), as the two are the same only during a full moon.
		Because the near side is partly shielded from the solar wind by the Earth, the far side maria are expected to have the highest concentration of Helium-3 on the surface of the Moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Far_side_(Moon) (1299 words)

	Moon Phases
		These photographs showed that the far side of the Moon is similar to the near side except for the absence of large maria.
		The spacecraft mapped the gravitational field of the Moon, determined the distribution of radioactive elements in its crust, and confirmed the presence of ice at the lunar poles.
		First, the Moon is a natural laboratory to study the geological processes—meteorite impacts, volcanism, and large-scale movements of the crust—that have shaped all of the rocky planets.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /parainvestigator/Moon/moon.html (2148 words)

	The Moon
		The phases of the moon are caused by the relative positions of the earth, sun, and moon.
		When the moon is between the earth and the sun, it appears dark, a "new" moon.
		Because the "horns" of the moon at the ends of the crescent are always facing away from the setting or rising sun, they always point upward in the sky.
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /academy/universe/moon.html (499 words)

	the Moon
		The near hemisphere was all we knew of the Moon until camera-bearing spacecraft first peeked around the far side in the early 1960's.
		Laplace realized that the effect of lunar gravity on the side of the Earth facing the Moon had to be greater than its effect on the center of the Earth (which is a greater distance from the Moon), and weakest of all on the side facing away from the Moon.
		Naturally, half of the Moon's surface is always illuminated by the Sun (except during a lunar eclipse); the change of appearance occurs because the Moon, the Sun, and the Earth are constantly changing position relative to one another.
	www.christa.org /moon.htm (2260 words)

	CEPS Moon Research
		Due to the rotation period of the Moon being similar to its orbital period, we see the same side of the Moon from the Earth.
		The dark areas visible, or "mare", are the remains of giant outpourings of basaltic lava, usually lying in the floors of large impact basins.
		As the Moon orbits the Earth, occasionally alignment with the Sun in the sky will create a solar eclipse where the Moon's disk occults the bright disk of the Sun, allowing us to see the blue/white hot radial solar corona, and cooler red prominences.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/ceps/research/moon/moon.cfm (557 words)

	Far Side
		The side of the Moon that cannot be seen from Earth is called the 'far side'.
		The Moon's axis of rotation is nearly perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around the Sun, so the Sun always appears at or near the horizon in the polar regions of the Moon.
		However, during the new moon phase, the so-called 'dark side' or far side is experiencing full daylight.
	members.tripod.com /moon-landings/id42.htm (589 words)

	"Man on Moon Face" Caused by Impact on Moon's Far Side
		Their study suggests that a large object hit the far side of the moon and sent a shock wave through the moon's core and all the way to the Earth-facing side.
		Its surface is warped in two spots; an earth-facing bulge on the near side is complemented by a large depression on the Moon's far side.
		On the far side of the moon, the crust looks as though it was depressed and then recoiled from a giant impact, he said.
	technocrat.net /d/2006/2/10/429 (1322 words)

	Far Side of the Moon - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Far Side of the Moon - Picture - MSN Encarta
		This composite of images taken by the Clementine spacecraft shows the far side of the Moon—the side that permanently faces away from Earth.
		The far side has fewer and smaller maria than the near side.
	encarta.msn.com /media_701610543_761573665_-1_1/Far_Side_of_the_Moon.html (56 words)

	Caption for Moon--- Far Side Image (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This image of the moon was obtained by the Galileo Solid State imaging system on Dec. 8 at 7 p.m.
		The dark spots in the center are Mare Orientale, on the western limb of the near side of the moon, a region barely visible from the Earth.
		This region and the bright far side highlands on the left have not been seen previously by a camera system such as the one on the Galileo spacecraft, which provides multispectral images of the lunar limb and far side which have not previously been obtained.
	www2.jpl.nasa.gov /galileo/images/far.html (169 words)

	Nasa to put man on far side of moon
		These regions, all on the near side of the moon, were the only areas known to be flat enough for a safe landing.
		The far side — so called because it always faces away from the Earth — was first photographed in 1959 by a Russian probe.
		The evidence gathered by such missions was enough to deter any attempt to land because most of the far side appeared to be covered in large craters.
	www.infowars.com /articles/science/space_nasa_put_man_far_side_of_moon.htm (716 words)

	Tour the Solar System and Beyond - Our Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Photo: This photograph of the Moon was taken in December 1972 by the Apollo 17 mission, shortly after the spacecraft left the Moon to return to Earth.
		The Moon has not undergone the continual mountain-building and volcanic activity that characterize Earth; it is a fossil planet on which the earliest stages of geologic evolution are preserved.
		The far side, which cannot be observed from Earth, has days and nights just like those on the near side.
	spacekids.hq.nasa.gov /osskids/animate/moon.html (860 words)

	The Moon
		The Moon's gravitational attraction is stronger on the side of the Earth nearest to the Moon and weaker on the opposite side.
		Actually, the Moon appears to wobble a bit (due to its slightly non-circular orbit) so that a few degrees of the far side can be seen from time to time, but the majority of the far side (left) was completely unknown until the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 photographed it in 1959.
		The Moon's crust averages 68 km thick and varies from essentially 0 under Mare Crisium to 107 km north of the crater Korolev on the lunar far side.
	www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html (1695 words)

	APOD: October 8, 1998 - Far Side of the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		APOD: October 8, 1998 - Far Side of the Moon
		This sharp picture from Apollo 16's mapping camera shows the eastern edge of the familiar near side (left) and the strange and heavily cratered far side
		The likely explanation is that the far side crust is thicker, making it harder for molten material from the interior to flow to the surface and form the smooth maria.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap981008.html (120 words)

	Water on the Moon? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		the belief of water on the Moon started when the analysis of data returned from a radio-wave experiment performed in 1994 while the Clementine spacecraft was orbiting the Moon revealed that deposits of ice exist in permanently dark regions near the south pole of the Moon.
		Orbits 301 and 302 were data taken over the north pole of the Moon (where very little permanently dark area is seen), while data from orbits 234 and 235 were taken in the vicinity of the south pole.
		This graph is scientists' evidence for ice at the south pole of the Moon.
	members.tripod.com /moon-landings/id75.htm (1657 words)

	why same side of moon faces earth - Moonstick Information Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If the moon turns so that the points are no longer pointing toward and away from the Earth, the stretching action (in addition to mildly reshaping the moon) will pull the points back in line with the Earth.
		Thus the pointy side of the moon remains pointing toward the Earth.
		If, at some stage the moon solidifies, it will reach a stage (since it is not perfectly round and the distribution of matter in it is not homogeneous) where it does not have enough energy to complete a whole rotation and it starts oscillating.
	www.moonphasecalendar.com /same_side.htm (347 words)

	Lesson 7 - The Phases of the Moon
		The phases of the Moon are caused by the positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun.
		The New Moon occurs when the Moon is directly on the Sun side of the Earth, or to put that another way, the Moon is "new" when it is between the Earth and the Sun.
		Notice that the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is not "new" - it is still an Old Moon because of the way the sunlight strikes it.
	www.synapses.co.uk /astro/moon2.html (2600 words)

	Soviet Moon Images
		One July 20, 1965, Zond-3 was the second spacecraft to view the far side of the Moon.
		Luna-17 landed on the Moon on November 15, 1970.
		Luna-24 was the last spacecraft to land on the Moon (Soviet or American), on August 18, 1976.
	www.mentallandscape.com /C_CatalogMoon.htm (2033 words)

	Far Side of the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Before the telescope, people thought the moon was a huge mirror, and the mountains and oceans on its luminous surface were merely the reflection of our own mountains and oceans.
		The moon in Far Side of the Moon shows its smiling, symbolic face in the very first frame.
		Far Side of the Moon imbues the weightiest issues of human existence with a zero-
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/far_side_of_the_moon (789 words)

	NASA has big plans to put man on the far side of moon \| TechWhack News
		This project is aimed at taking up to four astronauts at a time and land them on the far side of the moon to collect rock samples and carry out research.
		China to launch a moon probe orbiter in 2007 Chinaâ€™s chief scientist of the moon probe programme confirmed that they plan to launch an unmanned lunar exploration orbiter, "Chang'e 1" in 2007.
		China aims to put a man on moon in next 15 years With Russia and USA struggling with their space missions, it looks like China is aiming to become the next dominating player in space research and exploration.
	news.techwhack.com /3303/man-on-the-far-side-of-moon (649 words)

	Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions
		The bright side (and therefore the dark side too) is not a fixed place, but appears to move as the Moon revolves around the Earth.
		If it were new moon to someone on Earth, the Sun would be behind the bulk of the Moon to you.
		The half moon to someone on Earth means it would be either sunrise or sunset to you, depending on whether you are a week past new moon or a week past full moon, respectively.
	www.badastronomy.com /bad/misc/dark_side.html (666 words)

	The Far Side of the Moon
		The Far Side of the Moon was based on Robert LePage's well-received one-man play, bears none of these hallmarks.
		Shortly before The Far Side of the Moon begins, Philippe's mother died, and he's arguing with is brother Andre about what to do with her things.
		The Far Side of the Moon was Canada's entry to the 2004 Academy Awards (and is receiving distribution nearly two years later), and also garnered Genie nominations (the Canadian Oscars) in most major categories (Best Director, Film, Actor), and won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/far_side_moon.html (593 words)

	Astronomy quiz about the Moon
		Temperatures on the moon range between -1730°C and 1270°C. Temperatures on the moon range between -173°C and 127°C. Temperatures on the moon range between -17°C and 12°C. Temperatures on the moon range between -1°C and 1°C. 4) The same side of the moon always faces the Earth.
		Sound travels very far on the moon because it has such a thin atmosphere.
		About 90 percent of the far side of the Moon consists of large, dark maria and very few craters.
	www.moon-phases.com /the-moons-phases.html (363 words)

	past productions: the far side of the moon
		the far side of the moon has captivated audiences across the world, and we are proud to be presenting it to New England audiences for the first time.
		the far side of the moon was first performed at Le Théâtre du Trident in Québec City on February 29, 2000...
		When it returned images of the hidden face of the moon, the one we can never see from earth, we were shocked to learn that there existed a pounded and scored face of the moon, wounded by countless meteors and storms of celestial debris.
	www.amrep.org /farside (637 words)

	The flight of Luna 3
		The 29 exposures of the moon's far side were taken at 0330-0410 UT on 7 October 1959 when the probe was 65567-68785 km from the moon's centre (7).
		The pictures of the moon's far side were distributed by tele-photo from Moscow late on Monday (UT) 26 October 1959 and created another space age media frenzy.
		The Soviets announced that pictures of the far side of the moon were taken between 0330 and 0410 UT on 7 October 1959.
	www.svengrahn.pp.se /trackind/luna3/Luna3story.html (3973 words)

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