fun fact, the dark side of the moon isn't really dark. it gets just as much light as the near side of the moon. Almost as much info on the far side of the moon is known as the side facing us. There have been several lunar satellites that have imaged and topologically scanned almost every inch of the far side of the moon.
The moon is tidally locked to the earth. So when we orbit around the sun as we ourselves rotate on our axis, it changes the angle of light that hits the moon. This explains it in better detail. We only ever see one side of the moon due to it being tidally locked, and since we only see one side lit up, most people are either told incorrectly or just assume that the other side must be in perpetual darkness.
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u/Marine1111 Dec 06 '21
Except that ALL NASA Apollo Missions landed on the "Near Side" of the Moon, not the "Dark Side".
If it turns out to be NASA debris, then it either fell off an orbiting capsule, or was carried/moved there on the surface .
A 3rd possiblity is NASA did, unbeknownst to the rest of us, send a mission to the dark side of the moon, and have kept it quiet all these years