🌑 The Dark Side of the Moon
Hidden from Earth’s view, the far side of the Moon reveals a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts. Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , we can now explore this mysterious hemisphere in unprecedented detail.
Image credit: NASA / LRO Project Team (SVS)
🌓 Moon Structures & Visual Mysteries
Explore intriguing lunar formations captured in high resolution.
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🌐 Trusted NASA Resources
Explore verified scientific data and high-resolution lunar maps from official NASA partners. These resources provide deeper insight into the far side’s geology and history.
🌕 NASA Daily Moon Guide
Track the Moon’s current position, illumination, and surface view — directly from NASA’s Lunar Observation program.
🔭 Open NASA’s Daily Moon Guide© NASA / AstronomyWatch.org — linked to official lunar data sources.
🛰️ Clementine Lunar Mapping Mission (1994)
Discover the Clementine spacecraft — a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, launched to map the Moon in unprecedented detail. The data it returned still supports lunar science today.
🛰️ Note: The Clementine spacecraft featured a single solar array on one side only — a design optimized for its short lunar mapping mission in 1994. Some NASA 3D models show two panels for visual balance, but the embedded model above represents the technically accurate configuration flown by the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE).
© AstronomyWatch.org — Clementine Mission Section