It's not hidden from the sun. It's hidden from our view. That's because the Earth and moon are in what's called synchronous rotation. Which means every time the moon rotates once on its axis ...

this means that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. This is known as synchronous rotation. Synchronous rotation is why some people call the side that never faces the planet the 'dark ...

The early Moon formed close to the Earth from the debris created by the collision of a Mars-sized body with the proto-Earth. Prior to being tidally locked into synchronous rotation - which keeps ...

In 2019, China sent the first lunar rover to the far side of the moon. A synchronous rotation keeps one side of the moon shrouded in mystery from our perspective. It takes about as long for the ...