The Dark Side Of The Moon

We never see its face The dark side of the moon is turned away Like a coy virgin Now the spacecraft, Chang'e 4 has landed Like a metal spider, down on its hinged legs Earthshine does not reach this area This battered, cratered, surface Like a pockmarked skin In 1967, the Map of the Moon Was given to the world by Russian sources The far side was first seen by human eyes During the mission of Apollo 8 Astronaut William Anders described the view: The backside looks like a sand pile my kids have played in for some time. It's all beat up, no definition, just a lot of bumps and holes, he said Amici, Aitken, Comrie, Auchin crater Bok, Cantor, Comrie. Finsen and Fridman Hertzsprung, Icarus, Jenner, Volkov, Kugler Lacus Oblivionis, Leibnitz, Pogson Maksutov, McKellar, Mare Australe Volkov, Sverdrup, Titov, Shternberg Nicholson, Nishina, Pettit, Mare Australe China's satellite called theMagpie Bridge, Will relay signals from the moon to Earth A 1990 horror film Fantasised on an abandoned shuttle there Home to an alien, feeding on human souls I prefer Astronaut William Anders take: It's really ‘Just a lot of bumps and holes'