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Far side of the moon from Artemis II
Apr 7, 2026 2:08 AM
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Far side of the moon from Artemis II
FoxVoxDK
Read through the comments, you'll learn something. It's great.
bobbsr
Where is “ Carroll”?
osser
Dark side of the moon is the best album ever released
davesaint01930
Isn't that where the secret base is?
sacrosanctt
They should stop and go swimming in that lake
Guisso14
I dont see a desepticon ship...
hogeyegrex
I hate to be that guy, but this isn’t “the far side of the Moon.” The Moon is currently waning gibbous, and the near side is 77% illuminated. That means 3/4 of that planet mage is of the side we see. Still cool as hell, but the media calling it the far side are simply wrong. One story was correct in that it said astronauts get first glimpse of far side. Much better than sensationalizing a picture that’s impressive enough as is.
TheMellowPeril
Is this the great gig in the sky I keep hearing about?
DildoFagggins
Fake. There is no space nazi base
/S
stronomer
Since the Moon was 73% illuminated as seen from Earth last night, this does not seem to be the far side of the Moon as photographes by Artemis II astronauts.
TheFuckfaceWhisperer
There aren't any mare on the far side...
BehGehBeeeehh
The coolest thing about this mission is that the video and photography is going to be SO MUCH BETTER.
AntaNce
I can't figure out why there aren't more cameras on the outside of the ship. No eclipse yesterday as it happened. Taking turns at the window
Atonic1959
All those years they told us it wasn't actually the dark side, they were lying!
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
"Dark" refers to unknown, or the concept of being "unilluminated by our sight"
archon325
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
What kind of person downvotes cheese?
dirtcreature
What a joke. The moon is flat.
hogeyegrex
You believe in the moon?
dirtcreature
Yes - it hangs from the giant colander that makes the stars. Duh
ddubya42
looks like Pluto or Ceres
spartanatreyu
Moon has dark mare and no visible ice.
Pluto is a different colour and has those flat icy planes.
Ceres looks closer to moon than Pluto. But Ceres doesn't have any mare, the craters look larger (since Ceres is smaller) and it has those shiny patches of ice from the cryovolcanos.
If anything, I'd say the far side of the moon looks closer to Mercury (so long as you look at it from the side that doesn't have the spider on it)
tizme
The…The spider on it?! 😳
spartanatreyu
The spider:
https://www.planetary.org/space-images/20140126_messenger_pantheon_shadows
Septcanmat
You know you’re never more than six feet from a spider. *Never*. Not even on mercury.
ddubya42
and the chances of getting bitten and dying from that spider are low, but never zero
duktayp
I'm seeing green blue brown...
Targe0
Yep, the moon has a lot more colour than we can see from Earth because the reflection blows out all of it.
And it requires a good camera to actually pick it up even when in orbit.
bloodrosee
Where can I learn more about the moon's colors? I'm very excited to learn it has colors.
Targe0
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/what-colour-is-the-moon
ChazzK
This has also been "color enhanced" to better show the topography and/or mineral make-up of the areas (saw a couple out there, not sure which this is)
Targe0
It does have those colours, but yeah the saturation has been boosted.
Because cameras really struggle to capture them without the right conditions.
They are just not as reflective as the less colourful regolith. Which results in them not showing up as well and getting washed out.
rolliefingers
Looks like our lil cheese fren up there took a pretty big bullet for us. All this time I had assumed the moon was kind of a pussy. Feel bad now.
akelamishari
Isnt the moon made out of a piece of primitive Earth hit by a meteor or something like that? Need to go research whether i dreamed that
rolliefingers
Thought I was pretty clear it's shot up pussy cheese, not sure if your views about meteor dreams are getting the way of common sense, or
Skywatcher16
the prevailing theory is that proto earth and another proto planet collided at just the right angle for most of both to merge while ejecting
Skywatcher16
a fraction into orbit around the combined proto planet that condensed and coalessed into the moon, yes.
Travelcedric
Not the full far side. Orientale Basin, the big round thing can actually be seen from Earth at times. What you have is part of the far side and part of the near side.
This is the actual far side of the Moon
https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=180435&picture=moons-far-side
MrGrundy
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dHZxNndhMHR4ZDcxa25yZjJ2MTZnZWlxOGp5Yjh4cXZhOTFvd3RsbCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/8kdLHlYG2qYDe/200w.webp
Travelcedric
The mare (the dark patches) are on the near side of the Moon, and can easily be seen from Earth. The big part is most likely Oceanus Procellarum which is seen on the left side of the Moon from the northern hemisphere of Earth
Comet260
The crew was geeking out about lunar geology today.
Travelcedric
It was really fun to watch them get all excited
HandoB4Javert
"There's no stars"
To properly expose the sunlit landscape, astronauts used fast shutter speeds ( ~ 1/250th of a second) and small apertures, which do not allow enough time for the faint light of distant stars to register on the film or sensor.
While the sky appears black in space due to the lack of atmospheric scattering, the intense sunlight reflecting off the Moon's surface, creates a high-contrast environment that washes out the dim stars.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Fuck the stars, I wanna know why it looks so discolored at the top. Are those deeper craters or something?
cyberninjaru
The brown areas come from iron oxide (rust), the dark blue comes from titanium deposits and volcanic rock.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Awesome.
slinkiisu
It's the Moon's ocean. We've been lied to all this time. There's water on the moon. Jk, yes, it's just craters from repeated impacts. The moon is our shield against the asteroid belt.
animi
Looks like there's some text on the lower-left.
KnockedArrow90
I was trying to be funny back then, and write "Cheeese!". But nobody could see it from our side. Looks like time got rid of it... would have been hilarious...
unluckyandbored
I think it says "Kilroy was here"
rolliefingers
The answer was there the whole time. It was just facing away from us.
criggie
Its either "Made in China" or a Prop65 warning, damn Californians...
dataengineer
pfft still smaller than OPs moms butt.
Antininny
you can see the part with plants
andexer
Is that where the cheese is?
hogeyegrex
Green cows need to eat something.
Grimmrog
No cheese walace and gromit ate it all
GBMaker
Oh, she's taken a pounding over the years.
Comet260
Those are all acne scars.
judyblue
So we wouldn't have to. Ultimate wing woman.
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
Taken a lot of hits for us. Thanks lil' buddy.
TheRealFireFrenzy
well it is the backside... .
TeddyMoment
Something something your mom.
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
She’s protecting Earth
Quebeker
Why is the north so much smoother than the south?
Wuz314159
Have you tried waxing your own butt-hole?
Skywatcher16
mare. at some point in the past, but more recent than the moons early days, massive lava flows covered large portions of the moon with new
Skywatcher16
darker colored crust that ancient humans called mare because they thought they were seas on the moon. the new crust has had less time to be
Skywatcher16
bombarded and would have in its formation filled in much of the cratering that was there prior making compartively more smooth.
Septcanmat
Plus, with neither wind nor water, the dusty lunar regolith doesn’t get redistributed across the surface.
TerribleAwful
wait, this doesn't sync up with the wizard of oz?!?!
Targe0
That's because that was a long time ago, things have chanced on the moon since then.
TomBrokaw
I get the joke, but: Echoes syncs up with the end of 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSOnYrF_Qgo
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
For generous meanings of "sync", but sure. Hadn't seen that pairing before.
Ankylosaur
The backside of the moon has a butt hole.
whoahman
Dark side of the taint.
MyGreatestFearBoner
Just microwave it for like 3 mins.
Zephyr86
That tracks
lezgetfukkinreal
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1YTk4Y2dkb3JlNmt5NGc3Y2I5NGozenRjaHY3eXk5emJrYXN5Z2llMSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/HltyQJpIz0n96/200w.webp
baals
I think the technical term is cloaca
puppyfart
Expected
californiadrought
Fart side of the moon !
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1c294dWZjYTZqbHJhYzhlem1ieHg3bHBwZG5uczZveGVzaXNob3c1OCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/xTiN0h0Kh5gH7yQYUw/200w.webp
californiadrought
Fart side of the moon
TrilithonStone
THAT'S NO MOON!
throwawaygizmo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Orientale
Hypothesist
and either a mullet or a hairy back
Daraanel
That's the laser cannon, currently covered for safety.
OperatorWay
MajorasTerribleFate
Covered, or... plugged?
isetprettygirlsonfire
Everyone's backside does
Canigetbannedagain2
Laughs in colostomy bag.
Wuz314159
Except Kim Jong Un & Donald Trump. They have no need for one.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Wuz314159
HOW DARE SOMEONE REFERENCE POP CULTURE THINGS!!!
Currahee63
It's not dark at all. Pink Floyd lied to us.
mitchwDog
They had their flash on when taking the pic
Memaleph
At least, everything under the sun is in tune
do7rkb5n
No they didnt, its a new moon.
tgiaa
If that is the dark side of the moon, that camera has a hell of a flash
hogeyegrex
Ironically, the near side has lower average reflectivity, and so is technically darker than the far side. We’ve been looking at the dark side all along.
CeterumCenseo
Also, the far side technically gets more sunlight than the side facing us, since "our" side gets dark during a lunar eclipse, the far side doesn't.
wiltsjunk
By "dark" they meant that it tells really off color jokes.
AtmaDarkwolf
it is dark as in 'the unseen' or 'the unseeable' not dark as in 'no light'
TootiesMagooties
They were talking about all the crimes the moon committed
Schoctane
Radio dark.
Carlo1973Munich
Thank You.
QueenOfTheFey
The dark side of the moon is called that because it was for so long a mystery. It may be illuminated but WE were in the dark.
IMustGrowUpReally
Dark side of the Earth?
pilomotor
Like how the dark ages weren't literally dark, but literacy rates were so low that there aren't many surviving historical records from that time.
QueenOfTheFey
Exactly!!
theshinobi23
This is the far side of the moon, not the dark side of the moon. I know I tend to wrongly associate the two, but then I think about the Futurama episode where they're on the moon, trying to outrun the encroaching darkness
hogeyegrex
In reality, this is mostly the near side of the moon, which, by albedo, is darker than the far side. So it is the dark side and not (much of) the far side.
QueenOfTheFey
The far side of the moon is called the dark side of the moon. Not because it is always dark, but because we were in the dark about it. Even when we sent people originally they could not transmit from that side, leaving it in "the dark". Fun hey?
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/is-dark-side-moon-actually-dark
whoahman
Insightful! Thanks for learning me something new.
Allusernamesaretakensoichoosethis
TIL
ATorsoOnATrampoline
There is no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact, it's all dark.
wiltsjunk
I dont know, I was really drunk at the time.
rrlyrae
ironically, this statement is true. the moon is one of the darkest objects in the solar system.
tentacularfleshscape
As in light it gives off internally? Or what? Cos it has super high albedo
rrlyrae
its albedo is ~12%. most of the moon is dark gray.
tentacularfleshscape
Ack, lower down I corrected
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
I think it’s more about how reflective it is.
tentacularfleshscape
That's albedo. Either way not sure how it's the darkest, unless other celestial bodies have even higher albedo