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Originally Posted by abisel
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Correct. There is no "dark side" to the moon.
The moon's axis of rotation is such that only one side of the moon faces earth as the moon orbits about earth. The other side, the so called dark side, never faces the earth, but it does get sunlight.
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I wonder how that happened. The rotation of the moon is exactly correct for us to only see one side of it in perpetuity.