Our First Glimpse of the Dark Side of the Moon
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2021
- The dark side of the moon is full of mystery, and according to some, evil robots, but, in 1959 Luna 3 was able to shed some light on it for the first time.
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Fun fact,
The Soviets didn't have radiation resistant film yet when they sent up the first Luna missions so what did they do? American company Kodak had invented film that was and it was used in the Corona spy satilites. These were recovered using a airborne drouge recovery system by the Americans and some were recovered by the Soviets. They took the film out and used it in their Luna missions.
Was searching for this comment and it was buried deep. It is a fact tho and I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video.
The film actually wasn't from a Corona spy satellite. It was actually from a Genetrix high-altitude spy balloon. The Ballons were used before the Corona program started and used the same general concept, float a camera over the enemy taking many pictures as it goes. The balloons would be released at the border and then get blown by high-altitude winds over the USSR before falling into international waters to be recovered by the US. However, with ballons being extremely unpredictable a great number of them crashed into the USSR, giving the Soviets plenty of hardened film to use for their space program.
@@Pcat0
Crap, you're right! I knew they stole it from us, thank you!
@@sarnxero2628 yea mm
@@bbeen40 :ASD
One of the oddest thing about this mission was the Russians used film developed for the CIA and recovered from spy balloons that overflew Russia in the Cold War.
Because the balloons flew so high the film was specially adapted to prevent fogging due to space radiation.
The Russians used US spy balloon film in the probe because the film, from previous recovered samples, was found to be so high quality and resistant to radiation.
You beat me to it. I can't believe how he missed that very interesting bit of history. Search for "How the Soviet Union Snapped the First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon With Captured Air Force Kodak Spy Film"
Yes!!!
The film was also 'extended red' as well as being extremely fast. All mapping of the far side has been in the near IR.
Also resistant to cold. The Russians were having trouble with their film breaking in the camera.
really, despite the complexity of micro-architecture, the older ways of doing challenging things are very difficult and interesting (mechanically anyways)
Even electronically. A key technology is the vacuum FET, known back then as a triode valve or tube. These could be made from glass or metal, and used empty space inside instead of silicium. Because of size and weight, many techniques used coils and capacitors to reduce the number of vacuum devices needed for any one device. For example a superheterodyne radio receiver would use a loopback circuit to amplify both the RF and IF signal through the same valve or transistor, thus providing twice the total signal amplification.
Video capture could be done directly with a special cathode ray tube that contained it's own Charge coupled sensor instead of the Heath-Robinson system in Luna-3. This is how television cameras used to be built until the 1970s. The main limit on resolution was the radio bandwidth for broadcast (max 5MHz per channel), not the technology itself. Apollo had to do it's live TV over a very weak radio link, so had to use really low resolution, but a camera with a tape recorder like on Voyager could be built for any resolution and just downlink the video as slowly as interplanetary links require.
It isn’t “the dark side”. It’s the FAR side.
Tell that to Pink Floyd
They even get this right in the caption at 00:25 .
Although there's an argument for 'dark, as in unknown', similarly to how 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' were named.
'Far side' is more correct when talking about the side of the Moon we (mostly, because libration) see from the Earth.
Dark side is also reference to 'communicate blackout'. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations.
When the moon is between us and the sun wouldn’t the far side of the moon be lit by the sun
Yes. We just don't see it because it's tidally locked.
Yeah, it's not really called dark because it isn't lit, it's called dark because we can't see it. There's information missing.
that's why the preferred way to call it is "far side" now
@@zakyzigzag The fact that this sci channel called it the "dark side" is annoying. They should know better.
Yes. The picture of the moon that Luna-3 took is when it is lit up, as otherwise the picture would be completely dark.
It's the FAR side of the moon, not the dark side of the moon (aka the night side) which actually faces towards the earth during the "new moon" phase.
It was dark to our observations so the word stuck.
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
"Far side," not, "dark side." It gets as much light as the side tidally locked to face us.
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
I have this mental image of Gary Larson scribbling away with Pink Floyd playing in the background, and everything suddenly makes sense.
Y’all forgot to mention where the camera film came from… probably the most interesting part of this Cold War story.
Looks for my Mom's vinyl Pink Floyd album. Lol! 💞
Great album.
Please don't say "dark side" of the moon, especially while showing a picture of a lander in full sunlight
Dark as in unknown. "Darkest Africa" "Dark Matter" etc. Dark is a common word for unknown or unfamiliar. We don't see the far side much, so it's fine to use the term here.
@@austinshoupe3003 We never see the far side from earth. But it’s called the “far side” not the “dark side.” Even the graphics say “far side.”
@@DavidRavenMoon we rarely say the far side of the earth. We say things like "Far east" as a contrast to "near east" or "middle east." But we know the globe at this point. Nothing is dark. Back when things were, we did say things like "darkest Africa" etc.
@@austinshoupe3003 Well there is no far side of the Earth. The moon is tidally locked. We only ever see the one side from Earth. If you’re on the near side of the moon Earth is always visible in the sky, but it’s rotating so you get to see all “sides” as it were.
The far side of the moon is only dark at night. 😁
He doesn't mean "dark" literally you mong. How are yall this dumb? 🙄🙄
"Dark side of the moon" is a bit of a misnomer. The far side of the moon isn't ever visible from Earth but it isn't dark. It gets exactly as much sunlight as the near side of the moon.
No, it doesn't. Far side gets little more sunlight as the near side because it is never eclipsed by Earth.
This reminds me of "Charlie and the MTA." Sings, "Did he ever return? No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned..." 🎶
I hadn't thought about that in years! Lol!
I foresee a title change in this video's future
9x "dark side"
2x "far side"
so about 82% wrong?
dark meaning unknown. Like the dark ages. So everybody was right up until we saw it.
@@Reginaldesq But considering the fact that ever changing parts of the moon's surface are also divided into night and day, to use "dark side" to describe the non-changing portion out of our sight is unwise. It creates confusion.
@@brianarbenz7206 Yeah and Greenland is icier than Iceland, names are dumb.
@@brianarbenz7206 It only creates confusion if you're looking to be confused.
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
I can't believe I've never heard about Luna-3! Taking photos and developing film in space.... amazing! Love the pin this month :D
"The dark side of the moon, mysterious"
♪ Mysterious as the dark side of the mooooon ♪
*Pink Floyd plays quietly in the background…*
the song is Brain damage
All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be. Run rabbit run.
There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark.
People have been watching dark side of the moon exactly the same amount of time they’ve been watching the light side of the moon. Moon is Tidally locked to earth. When there is no moon, it’s the same side of the moon in the shadow rim lit by earths reflecting the sunlight. You are a science show for crying out loud. Call it the back side, the other side or the opposite side. Not the dark side unless moon evil side was caught doing something
@@rezadaneshi THn they say Oh sh**
The interchanging use of "far side" and "dark side" is very confusing, since they're not even the same. I mean, I get to see the dark side once a month at least, but the far side, I can't see due to the tidal lock.
It's dark because we can't see, it not because it isn't lit.
@@jjbarajas5341 That's a stretch, man
@@gabedarrett1301 _shrug_ makes sense to me, just seems like semantics imo
@@jjbarajas5341 It is a lit up as the near side. You obviously don't get the point. We can see the dark side. It may not be lit up, but it is visible. The far side is NEVER seen from Earth regardless of light. Sometimes it is lit up, sometimes not. But it has only been seen by a small handful of people.
@@daydreamer226 I think you all are hyperfocused on this non-issue for some reason? It is _exactly_ because we can _never_ see the other side from earth, that it is dark. Not a literal darkness, but a darkness of knowing/knowledge. Akin to "being in the dark" about something. Or, when "communications have gone dark," which doesn't refer to whoever you're contacting as being literally in the dark, but that you can no longer "see" them or reach them. Now we know what the other side looks like, but you'll never see it from earth, hence it's still "dark" to us.
What's obvious to me is that a lot of people are unaware of such meanings or connotations and see fit to complain, when it's a valid way to refer to the unseen side of the moon. Not the most clinical/scientific thing to say, possibly, but valid nonetheless. 🤷♀️
Cool story, great achievement and technology
Dark side? It’s the FAR side!! I expect more from SciShow.
If they said it on Sci Show Kids, then you might have a point. But everyone who watches this video is going to know exactly what dark side of the moon means. There is zero chance that anyone is going to be mislead by this. So just stop trying to look smart.
@@phaedrus000 Not everyone is so smart, even if they are watching this channel.
Errors or problems in vids should be pointed out.
@@phaedrus000 Ah, only to prove my point, people got confused and asked questions.
I tried answering them, here is one of those threads
ua-cam.com/video/ipmMqLrCT9o/v-deo.html&lc=Ugx0UL7OJ_LzQhmLhed4AaABAg
edit: youtube does not allow me to link to a another comment, if anyone wants to read that thread you have to copy the link, and not click on it :C
@@phaedrus000 Most people realize the differences between a typo and a spelling mistake. In this case, the video is wrong and it should be pointed out. Maybe you should tell Sci-Show to stop trying to look smart if they don't know the difference
@@phaedrus000 as a science educator (talking to actual people about... mostly space, on a daily basis), I get PLENTY of adults confused about the whole "dark side of the Moon" thing. So no, it's not "obvious" what's going on
"dark side of the moon" is a great album, but i think you mean "far side"
Give it time. Disney hasn't aquired the rights yet.
Interchangeably, dark or far. Both are used.
@@saintchuck9857 Both are used, but they aren't synonymous (unless it's a full moon). The dark side of the moon is the night side and can be on the near side, far side or in-between as the moon rotates on it's nearly 30 day cycle. The Far Side of the moon is the side that faces away from us more or less all the time due to being tidally locked with the earth. In this case, saying "dark side" when referring to the "far side" is an error.
Don't be pedantic. "Dark" also means "unknown" in 19th cent/early 20th cent parlance. As in "Dark Africa", "dark energy" or "dark matter"
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
My first glimpse of The Dark Side Of The Moon is when I saw that album in my big brother's room.
I find it disappointing that a science educator would use the term “dark side of the moon.” Yes, “dark” can refer to “unknown.” But, there are so many people who take the term literally, that I think using the term “dark side” to mean “far side” can tend to increase confusion and ignorance among the general public.
Those confused and ignorant don't usually stumble across educational content like this.
@@mihan2d it's funny that you would use the term educational to describe a clip that conflated a feature of the moon with a Pink Floyd album
So happy to see Reid
I wonder how the moon being tidally locked with the earth effected how early humans thought about space and all that. We never saw any planet rotate with the nacked eye, and the moon was only ever this one disk in the sky. Would the fact that you could see it rotate just by looking up into the nightsky made it obvious it was a ball, thus leading to an entirely different view of space for early humans?
actually if you took many pictures of the moon and put into a time lapse it would be pretty clear that the moon is infact round ie.: ua-cam.com/video/uzbIlev4Z-4/v-deo.html
@@TheDancing0wind Wow, didn't know that. I know the earth kind of "wobbles" on its axis, looks like the moon does that, too, to some degree?
@@AvB.83 yep i saw a less cluttered version with fixed vie point and it clearly looks as you are wobbling a ball with a finger in a circle.
Was it powered by steam and golden gears? Wow, this is like a SteamPunk version of StarTrek... Retro yet high tech at the time. 🤯
Sounds like Luna was a sophisticated flying Vending machine. That early stuff was so cool because of all the science leapfroging into the unknown with competing countries.
You'll be surprised to know that most space craft are sophisticated flying vending machines.
Ooh, I am bugged by how many times he says “dark side” of the moon. It’s not dark, it gets just as much sunlight as the other side. It’s simply perpetually the FAR side from the Earth.
~Trav
They should know better.
I just came here to say the same thing.
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
The far side of the Moon IS darker than the near side as it receives no Earthshine, which NASA says provides 76 times more light than a full moon provides on Earth. When they used a spot meter on the sunlit part of the far side during Apollo 8 they measured between 160-320 lumens, how does that compare to the sunlit near side numbers? NASA won't tell you.
Dark side
We don't need no education , oh wait a second shot so confused😁
The moon is a disc floating 2000 metres above the earth... It's true I saw it on YT
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JUST ORDERED MY VERY FIRST PIN!!!! :D I love the moon~ I love the name Luna~ The number 3 is AWESOME!! & October is my birth month! ^_^ I was even supposed to be born on the 3rd!! But I made momma wait a few extra weeks. :P It was too purrrrfect and beautiful a pin to pass up~ Thanks, guys!! :D
Should have explained that there is no permanent "dark side" of the moon, only the "far side."
Had to preorder that sweet pin!
So...this satellite was basically a flying Polaroid Camera!
Wait, why do you call it the darkside?
Because it is generally unseen from Earth. Libration allows us to see some of it.
Because of the lack of information.
When you don't have any information and have no eyes or ears on it, it's gone "dark".
We have had very limited information about the far side of the moon up until relatively recently in human history so it's still sometimes refered to as the dark side
But it also refers to the fact that the moon is tidally locked which means that the "light side" of the moon is only ever facing earth and therefore we only see one side as the "light side" which makes the other side the "dark side"
Crazy fact though, the far side of the moon was actually photographed using American film that the Soviets captured from a crashed US spy balloon from from the CIA's genetrix program. 🤔
This film was beyond what the Soviets could produce at the time as Kodak were able to make radiation hardened film; needed for their high altitude Blloons but also very handy for space flight.
It's not the dark side it's the other side the moon is tidely locked to the earth and the sun still shines on the far side
It hasn't never meant unlit
@@saintchuck9857 It's the wrong word. They meant far side. The dark side would be precisely what it says, the currently unlit side. Same for Earth.
*far side.
Dark side of the moon is an album...
I'm sure there are other comments here saying that the far side of the moon is not always dark, but I'm too lazy to look.
So much for the best song from Mulan...
I think it's crazy that we have pictures of galaxies billions of light years away but somehow taking a picture of the backside of our own moon is such an incredible feat. (and obviously that's no disrespect to our scientists, just crazy how that works)
1k resolution! Nice! What's the pixel density? Oh...
Far side. Far side of the moon.
Dark Side of the Moon is a Pink Floyd album.
There is no dark side of the moon
As the moon rotates all of the moon will get sunlight.
The far side however is the side always away from earth !
Dark side of the moon has never meant unlit
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
You really should say “far side of the moon”. I get people in my work that actually believe the “dark side” of the moon is actually always dark and I then have to explain how the solar system works to an adult.
It's okay because those people will never even get this video in their recommended let alone click on it.
Like the new intro graphics
how, in 2021, is it still a thing in knowledgable circles to say "dark side" and not "the far side"? there is no "dark" side on the moon please!
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
also the far more correct expression I mentioned, doesn't challenge logic on any interpretation and is allways correct from earths perspective.
Why didn’t they just use OLED tvs and equip the probe with 8K camera sensors?
We should attempt to replace the common wording of dark side, it's the FAR side, all of it gets sunlight.
Now that you are talking about "the dark side of the moon," maybe you should start explaining how we live on a flat Earth. It's THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON!
It’s not the dark side of the moon, it’s the FAR side of the moon. The moon, being tidally locked has a 14-hour day, and a 14-hour night, but the sun does rise and set on the moon. There is no permanently dark side. There is just a near side and a far side.
Although there is some popular misconception, the dark side of the moon never refered to sunlight. It's dark as in unknown, like in "darkest Africa". But even this is not really valid anymore, as it is not unknown to us today. So yes, the far side is the better term.
@@darth856 exactly, "dark side" can easily lead people to be confused
It is NOT the "Dark Side" of the moon. It is the FAR SIDE!
Yeah, it's Neil, request more air time, please.
It's not the "dark" side, it's the FAR side. It gets the same amount of sun light as the near side. Don't post videos if you don't know what you're talking about.
Ah yeah just like all of those historians calling the Early Middle Ages the "Dark Age". They need to learn their history, as they apparently didn't know that Early Middle Ages had a daytime just like any other age in history.
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
That's the far side of the moon. The dark side is Shackleton Crater.
No, it's the side we can't see from Earth. That's what "dark side of the moon" means to anyone who isn't a massive pedant.
There is a far side of the Moon but no permanently dark side. The whole Moon gets sunlight during its month long rotation except for some areas of the poles.
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
There was one another amazing detail you did not mention! Yes, Luna-3 needed a very reliable film to withstand harsh conditions of outer space. Problem - Soviet Union at the time could not produce such film! Japanese could, USA could - but they would never give such technologies to their Cold War rivals. So, how did the Soviets acquire these films? By shooting down (or sometimes they just fell off) American spy high altitude balloons! They got cameras mounted on them that used exactly the film needed for a job!
Scott Manley had an awesome episode on that matter: ua-cam.com/video/YDs8rz7pRLQ/v-deo.html
I remember when the Russian ship sent those images back..... Boy did preachers ever have a lot of material for Sunday sermons. I'd just joined the man's Navy and saw the grainy pictures on tv. What an amazing feat.
Guess what they still using the same script
Far Side not dark side, the far side is lit by sunlight about as much as the near side.
I wish there was a subscription for the pins like Bizarre Beasts
Does the Earth provide the light to make the moon visible now? The dark side of the moon is facing us literally half the time! We've been able to see it for centuries!
It's not the "dark" side of the moon. All parts of the moon get 2 weeks of light followed by 2 weeks of dark. It's the BACK side of the moon--the side we never see from earth. But it's not always dark. It's only fully dark when the moon is full. If you guys weren't doing the high quality work you are, I wouldn't be picky. But this is a high quality channel--you should speak precisely. 😃
I was surprised that a channel that is such a stickler for using only metric units in the name of scientific accuracy would use the term “dark side” so copiously, interchangeably with “far side” and without clarifying the issue. Maybe they think we’re all that smart 😉
@3:49 - Finally!
The FAR side of the moon does not get any more or less light or dark than the near side.
The moon is made of barbeque spare ribs.
cool
Flashing warning please. Was not ready for that. When you're explaining the CRT
0:22 First picture of the lunar farside. Made by a Soviet Luna explorer.
Lower left [Credit: NASA] what?!
Adding my voice to the many comments pointing out the missed educational opportunity of explaining dark side vs far side, tidal locks etc.
I thought I was the only one who felt weird when they mentioned the far side as "dark side".
far side of the moon not dark side
*Far side of the moon
Don't you mean the FAR Side of the Moon?
Everyone else is complaining about the use of "dark side". I hate to be left out, so... What side is the "dark side" exactly?
I tried answering someone else here:
ua-cam.com/video/ipmMqLrCT9o/v-deo.html&lc=Ugx0UL7OJ_LzQhmLhed4AaABAg
I hope that helps.
edit: youtube does not allow me to link to a another comment, if anyone
wants to read that thread you have to copy the link, and not click on it :C
I'm sad that they call it the DARK side... kinda unscientific ☹️
At least clear up that it isn't dark...
it is dark twice a month
It certainly was not dark when Luna3 photographed it!
Like the "Dark Ages" Called dark, not because the sun didnt shine for hundreds of years but because we didnt know much about what was happening during that time.
There is no dark side of the moon really; as a matter of fact it's all dark.
Breathe breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
the far side of the moon isnt always dark, we just cant see it usually. but the side that IS always dark? is the inside
I'm impressed that SciShow SPACE didn't correct the misconception about the "dark side" being not dark for half of the lunar cycle around the Earth
It certainly was not dark when Luna 3 photographed it! It’s called photography, not darkography.
Who doesn't understand what it is referring to?
Radiation makes it hard to take photo's of Martians flying around in their flying saucers
The fact that there are no "Martians flying around in their flying saucers" makes it even harder'
The use of the word dark in describing the unseen far side of Earth's Moon was of 19tj century origin and referred to its unexplored nature, not that didn't receive sunlight
Still, the repeated use of "dark" drove me up the wall. It could have been used once, and then dismissed in an explanation. It absolutely confused the issue.
It's not dark. It's just not visible to us.
Far side of the moon please.
You could at least change the title to "far side" instead of "dark side".
If anything, it gets *more* light than the near side because it never gets eclipsed by the Earth.
I had never thought about that before, but now that you mention it, it's self-evident.
@@craigcorson3036 it only occurred to me when I wrote that comment.
No, the near side gets more light due to "earthshine." The far side never gets any light reflected off the Earth like the near side does. The amount of light blocked during eclipses is negligible in comparison.
Dark side is reference to 'unknown' and 'communicate blackout' and doesn't mean anything to do with amount of sunlight. Have you ever heard when a submarine 'goes dark'? Or a spy or special agent 'going dark'? They don't just suddenly turn off the lights, they stop communicating and begin silent operations. Same as the names Dark Matter and Dark Energy are unknown.
@@MrT------5743 dark matter and dark energy are called "dark" because they do not directly interact with light... so light has a lot to do with those names, too
The "dark side" isn't any darker -- it is Moon's "far" side, always facing away from Earth, and it gets just as much sunlight as the "near" side that faces Earth.
Why do you keep saying dark side of the moon? It's lit too.
Google
Far side
How long until we can stop calling the far side of the moon "dark"?
Why can't we ever get as detailed reporting on the Chinese missions? Y'all just showed a picture of the craft but didn't even mention it's name or what it's mission was.
It is hard to get info on Chinese missions overall
@@DanielFenandes they explained enough about the first craft so they could sell a pin, but didn't even bother to show new stuff
damn stan loona ig
Question: Why does the "dark" side have less impact craters???? If the moons gravity pulls in the meteors or more, physics would say it would not be the side facing earth, it would be either the sides or the back side of the moon, because it gets in the way between us and them.
" … us and them" Another great song from Pinkfloyd's Dark Side of the Moon
It doesn't. All sides of the moon have roughly the same distribution of impact craters. What you see less of on the far side are the lunar maria, the large dark areas. Those are not impact craters. They are volcanic in origin.
all the commenters being like "colloquialisms are for normies"
When the cause actual confusion, they are bad.
Working at the Planetarium, I can't tell you how many people (often adults!) are confused by "the dark side of the Moon". It's.... a lot. So yes, I'd be much happier if less confusing and more correct terminology was used - or, even better, the phrase explained.
This video is referencing information gathered WHEN it was still referred to as the "dark" side of the moon. The first time anything is shown in text it says "lunar FAR SIDE." Obviously if there's a more simple term that more people are familiar with then they're going to use it in the title of their UA-cam video because that's literally how UA-cam works to get more people to click on your video. Using a common but incorrectly used phrase to get people to click on a video wherein you correct that information does not feel incorrect to me. Which arguably isn't even happening here
Computers as we think of them today hadn’t even been invented and we got to the moon
Is this vid about the Dark Side of the Moon or the far side of the Moon?
So this is a science education vid? Science obfuscation vid?
I used to be a SciShow fan.
@@fuckyoutubengoogle2 omg ur so smart
"Dark" like unknown? I don't know. It's a mystery to me. Darkness.
@@phaedrus000 fhunk u. i is vury smart.
Let me guess its just like the bright side, creators in different positions but it's Dark.
*pink floyd starts playing *