NASA | A View From The Other Side

A number of people who've seen NASA's annual lunar phase and libration videos have asked what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth. This video answers that question. The imagery was created using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.

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[evelynginsberg]

this is the greatest thing i'v ever seen. I am 82 years old and just had a great adventure. I just called my son to watch these wonderful scenes. thanks!

[jasonthomas]

I seen a video from NASA that had a NASA scientist saying how to send ppl to mars, and said that with our current technology it would be almost impossible to go through the van allen  radiation belts. So how the hell did we go through them to get to the moon and then again back to earth in

[Astro-CatMusic]

"This is not the actual moon. It's a CGI replica of the moon. NASA will never let us know what lies on the far side of the moon." Thank you for saying what everyone is thinking Thane.

[GeoffBlackmore]

I assume this is fake imagery (CGI), to create a visualisation of data?

[MediocreMonday]

nasa ONLY makes CGI, i'm still waiting for their first real footage from space!

[NaveganteBOG]

Imagine a base telescope located on the other side of the moon, just to look into deep space. There it wouldn't have any interference, isn't it? I love this videos.

[dellcoc]

Why is there never any actual footage?

[nickmallis]

"Made possible by computer graphics"

[Scatmanseth]

I came for the moon, but I stayed for the crazy people in the comments.

[NirmalKhalsa]

Love your CGI images! When are you going to show real ones?

[miniminy]

Earth is flat, the fact that this video is based on imaginary graphics, means you have absolutely no clue about how the moon looks from the other side, since you have no REAL video to prove it.

[tvmystery]

Can you answer why from 19 billion $ for a year you dont have one zooming from Huble telescope on earth ? If this are time laps pictures how you took them?

[randomaccessfemale]

I can imagine someone making a lot of effort in doing the animations, lighting, and attaching LRO images on the Moon model. Unfortunately, I do not need to imagine the quality of Youtube comments on this fine video...

[DavidKenniston]

It takes surprisingly little time to scroll down the comments and find the nutjobs... oh America

[hanchinese]

well done with the CGI





when can we see the real photos and footages?

[yuryduarte]

I don't criticize that they don't have real picture, but they could at least mention the CGI is a representation of our current understanding of Earth and the Moon and may or may not be the full reality.

[Drefsab]

Pink Floyd was right: there is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark (depending on where the sun is illuminating it in relation to your vantage point, but I guess that didn't fit in the song).

[reed]

the Greeks figured out the earth was spherical 2, 000 years ago. y'all have nearly limitless information at your fingertips and choose to believe the absolutely least factually supportive and conceptually sound idea ever, the flat earth. incredible.

[Natesaffordable]

computer images exactly what I all the real time videos or real pictures?

[maraj]

All of this representation did not go to the moon