The moon doesn’t have a permanently dark side, both sides have light and dark periods. The phrase “far side of the moon” is a better descriptor. The moon is tidally locked and the far side looks different from the near side.
Despite the popularity of the term “dark side of the moon,” the moon doesn’t actually have a dark side that never receives sunlight. Instead, both sides of the moon—the one facing Earth and the one facing away from Earth—have light and dark periods, and one side gets no more sunlight than the other. Many researchers note that the phrase “far side of the moon” is a much better descriptor.
More about the moon:
The Soviet Luna 1959 mission of 3 brought back to Earth the first images of the opposite side of the moon.
The moon is “tidally locked,” meaning that one side always faces Earth, no matter where the moon is in its orbit.
The far side of the moon looks different than the near side. The near side is covered in lunar maria, plains that early astronomers thought were seas. The far side of the moon is covered in craters.
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