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Far Side of the Moon Filmed by NASA Spacecraft
from the Telegraph (UK)
One whole face of the Moon can never be seen from Earth because it constantly faces away from our planet. But now one of the twin GRAIL spacecraft launched by NASA last September has returned its first video of the Moon's hidden side after being pulled into orbit at New Year.
The video scans the barren, dusty face--the oldest part of the moon--all the way from north to south poles, revealing a landscape scarred by countless collisions with comets and asteroids.
Among the geographical features it picks up are the 93 mile (149km) wide Drygalski crater, which features a star-shaped formation in its centre and can be seen to the left of centre near the bottom of the screen as the video reaches the south pole.
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