Near side of the Moon, sure. But have you seen the north side? :

On its way toward Jupiter in 1992, our Galileo spacecraft snapped photos of the Moon. They included this mosaic of the Moon’s North Pole; a combination of 18 different photos. From this view, the Moon’s nearside is illuminated on the lower left, and its farside is shadowed on the upper right. The dark craters along its lower ridge are those that we would normally see when looking up at the Moon from Earth.

Ever wondered why the Moon’s craters are so dark? It’s because they are massive pools of hardened lava. Our Moon had a heavily volcanic past, but some patches suggest more recent volcanic activity. For instance, in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts observed what looked like the aftermath of a lunar volcanic eruption.

Image description: An image of the northern pole of the Moon, with the lower-left half illuminated and the other half shadowed. The familiar, dark blotches on the Moon’s nearside are shown from a different angle, decorating the left ridge from this point of view.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

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