“…As a matter of fact, it’s all dark.”

No więc, wbrew Pink Flojdom, po drugiej stronie Księżyca nie jest ciemno. Wręcz przeciwnie. Alfred Worden, pilot modułu dowodzenia misji Apollo 15, mówi tak:

[T]here are two things that are important to understand: there’s the far side of the Moon and then there’s the dark side of the Moon. They are two different things. The far side is the side away from the Earth and the dark side is the side away from the Sun. On our flight the Moon was about half lit, so there was about half a moon. So there was a little space around the far side of the Moon where I was shadowed from both the Earth and the Sun and that was pretty amazing. I could see more stars than I could possibly imagine. […] The sky is just awash of stars when you’re on the far side of the moon, and you don’t have any sunlight to cut down on the lower intensity, dimmer stars. You see them all, and it’s all just a sheet of white.

Worden mówi też o samotności na orbicie, o skali obiektów kosmicznych, o naszym miejscu we wszechświecie. Zresztą, przeczytajcie całość.

https://medium.com/learning-for-life/to-see-earth-and-moon-in-a-single-glance-89d094f6d40f#.jlfgjlxo0

Zdjęcie główne: Krater Ciołkowskiego. (foto (c) Alfred Worden, via NASA)