Why can't you see the far side of the moon? Why. Children's questions

The Moon floats high in the sky, bright, beautiful, with dark spots on its shiny disk. On a full moon, it resembles someone’s round, good-natured, slightly mocking face. We always see her like this. And before us, for thousands of years, people looked at the exact same Moon and the dark spots were distributed on it in the same way, which make it look like a human face. For thousands of years, people have been observing changes in her bright face - from the thin sickle of a newborn month to the full radiance of her disk. Meanwhile, the Moon is a ball, the same as other planets, including our Earth, on which you and I live. But the Moon never shows us its other side, we do not see it. Why?

The Moon rotates around its axis and at the same time makes its way around the Earth, because it is a satellite of the Earth.

In twenty-nine and a half days it completes its revolution around the Earth, and... it takes the same amount of time to turn around its axis - so slowly does it complete this revolution. And that's the whole point. That's why we always see only one side of her.

But how does this happen? So that you can imagine this more clearly, let's do a little experiment. Take some small table (if there is no table, a chair or something else that is more convenient for you, that will be at hand). This chair will be the imaginary Earth, and you yourself will be the Moon, which revolves around the Earth. Start moving around the table, remaining facing it the entire time. At the beginning of your movement, for example, you saw a window in front of you, but then, as you make your circle around the table (that is, the Earth), this window will be behind you, and only at the end of the path will you see it again . This will only confirm that you have turned not only around the table, but also around yourself, your axis.

That's how the Moon is. It rotates around the Earth and at the same time around its own axis.

But everyone now knows that we finally saw the far side of the Moon! How did this happen? Do you remember?.. However, no, you don’t remember this: in those years you were still too young! And this happened in 1959, when Soviet scientists launched an automatic station towards the Moon, which flew around our satellite and transmitted images from the other side to us on Earth. And people all over the world saw the far side of the Moon for the first time!

And that's not all. A few years later, Soviet scientists again sent an automatic station towards the Moon, and this time again photographs were taken and sent to Earth. Thanks to the images, scientists then compiled the first map of both sides of the lunar surface, and then a new color map of the Moon with lunar seas, mountain ranges, the most important peaks, ring crater mountains, and circuses.

While I was writing these pages, one news followed another. Before I had time to tell you about the new color map, an amazing event happened: in February 1966, the world’s first automatic station, ours, the Soviet one, landed on the Earth’s satellite! She made, as scientists say, a soft landing - this means that she landed on the Moon smoothly, without breaking the equipment.

Having softly landed on the moon, the automatic station immediately began to work hard - it sent more and more pictures of the lunar surface, and these pictures were taken on close range. But this is extremely important! The images were large and accurate: scientists simply pounced on these amazing documents and looked at them carefully; Now they saw what the surface of the Moon was like, what was on it, they affirmed or, on the contrary, changed their points of view about the lunar surface.

Luna 9 made a soft landing on our satellite, the Moon. And soon after that, in March 1966, Luna 10 was launched.

She began to fly around the moon, that is, she became her artificial satellite, and Luna-10’s instruments sent messages to Earth that research scientists needed to better know our celestial neighbor.

“Luna-10” made its endless flight around the Moon, so close and familiar, and in the first days the whole world could hear the melody of the Communist anthem, “The Internationale,” coming from it.

After “Luna-10” there were also “Luna-11”, and “Luna-12”, and “Luna-14”, and “Luna-16”... Our messengers are constantly soaring into outer space, they are paving the first paths to our heavenly neighbor. And the most difficult and most important thing is always what is done for the first time!

However, the news recent years amazing! American astronauts spaceship Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were the first to fly to the Moon in July 1969, two of them, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, stepped on its surface, the third, Michael Collins, was waiting for them, making circles around the Moon .

The names of these cosmonauts will go down in history just like the name of our glorious Gagarin, who was the first to go into space and see our planet Earth from the outside.

And a very special place in the study of our celestial neighbor is occupied by the amazing Lunokhod-4 apparatus, delivered to the Moon in November 1970. He worked hard there, doing man's work to explore the lunar surface. This amazing device only worked on a lunar day, when it could charge its batteries from solar energy. And on a moonlit night he rested, as they affectionately said about him: he slept.

Really, all this looks like a fairy tale.

And it may well happen that during the time this book is being printed, new amazing events will occur and we will have to expand this chapter, although at first we were going to talk about only one thing: why we don’t see the far side of the Moon.

WHY DO WE ONLY SEE ONE SIDE OF THE MOON?

The Moon floats high in the sky, bright, beautiful, with dark spots on its shiny disk. On a full moon, it resembles someone’s round, good-natured, slightly mocking face. We always see her like this. And before us, for thousands of years, people looked at the exact same Moon and the dark spots were distributed on it in the same way, which make it look like a human face. For thousands of years, people have been observing changes in her bright face - from the thin sickle of a newborn month to the full radiance of her disk. Meanwhile, the Moon is a ball, the same as other planets, including our Earth, on which you and I live. But the Moon never shows us its other side, we do not see it. Why?
The Moon rotates around its axis and at the same time makes its way around the Earth, because it is a satellite of the Earth.

In twenty-nine and a half days it completes its revolution around the Earth, and... it takes the same amount of time to turn around its axis - so slowly does it complete this revolution. And that's the whole point. That's why we always see only one side of her.
But how does this happen? So that you can imagine this more clearly, let's do a little experiment. Take some small table (if there is no table, a chair or something else that is more convenient for you, that will be at hand). This chair will be the imaginary Earth, and you yourself will be the Moon, which revolves around the Earth. Start moving around the table and at the same time, very slowly around your axis. You will see that you will be facing the table all the time. At the beginning of your movement, for example, you saw a window in front of you, but then, as you make your circle around the table (that is, the Earth), this window will be behind you and only at the end of the path will you see it again. This will only confirm that you have turned not only around the table, but also around yourself.
That's how the Moon is. It rotates around the Earth and at the same time around its own axis.
But I must tell you that we still saw the far side of the Moon! How did this happen? Do you remember? .. However, no, you don’t remember this; in those years you were still too young! And this happened in 1959, when Soviet scientists launched a rocket towards the Moon, which flew around our satellite, took pictures from its other side and transmitted these pictures to us, on Earth. And people all over the world saw the far side of the Moon for the first time!
And that is not all. A few years later, Soviet scientists again sent a rocket towards the Moon, and this time again photographs were taken and sent back to Earth. Thanks to these images, scientists have compiled the first map of both sides of the lunar surface. We now have a new color map of the Moon with lunar seas, mountain ranges, important peaks, ring crater mountains, circuses.
In February 1966, the world's first rocket, ours, Soviet, landed on the Earth's satellite. It made, as scientists say, a soft landing, which means that it landed on the Moon smoothly, without breaking the equipment, approximately the way a rocket should land on the Moon, on board of which the first explorers will arrive on the Moon. Our rocket, having softly landed on the moon, immediately began to work hard - it sent more and more pictures of the lunar surface, and these pictures were taken at close range. But this is extremely important! The images were large and accurate; scientists simply pounced on these amazing documents and looked at them carefully; Now they saw what the surface of the Moon was like, what was on it, they affirmed, or, on the contrary, changed their points of view about the lunar surface. Luna 9 made a soft landing on our satellite, the Moon. And soon after this remarkable flight, in March 1966, the rocket “Luna-10” was launched again, it began to fly around the Moon, that is, it became its artificial satellite, and the instruments of “Luna-10” sent messages to Earth that Research scientists need them to better know our celestial neighbor.
“Luna-10” made its endless flight around the Moon, so close and familiar, and in the first days the whole world could hear the melody of the Communist anthem “International” coming from it.
Here comes the news again! After Luna-10 there was also Luna-11, Luna-12, and Luna-13, which again made a soft landing on our satellite.
All the time soaring into unknown outer space soviet missiles, they pave the first paths to distant celestial bodies. And in October 1967, the whole world was shocked by the news that the Soviet interplanetary station “Venera-4” smoothly sank to the surface of Venus, one of the planets of our solar system. Who knows what news tomorrow will bring us.
In any case, while the book was published, we managed to add a lot to this chapter, which at first tried to tell only one thing: why we don’t see the far side of the Moon.

To the question Why do we see only one side of the Moon asked by the author User deleted the best answer is

Answer from Flush[guru]
tak ten ot zemli padayet na lunu i ona zatmevayetsya

Answer from Gray hair[guru]
Since man appeared on Earth, the Moon has been a mystery to him. In ancient times, people worshiped the Moon, considering her to be the goddess of the night. Today, however, we know much more about what it really is. We can even see the “reverse”, or, as it is also called, the “dark” side of the Moon in photographs taken by Soviet and American scientists. Why are we unable to look at the far side of the Moon from Earth? The fact is that the Moon is natural satellite Earth, that is heavenly body smaller ones.
sizes than our planet orbiting around it. One full revolution of the Moon in orbit around the Earth is approximately 29.5 days. It is remarkable that the Moon rotates around its axis in the same amount of time. That is why from the Earth we can only see one side of it.
To better understand how this happens, try the following experiment.
Take an apple or orange and draw a line on it dividing it into two halves.
Imagine this is the Moon. Then extend a clenched fist in front of you, which should represent the Earth. Now turn the “Moon” with one side towards the “Earth”. Continuing to keep the “Moon” facing the “Earth” with the same side, make a complete revolution around the “Earth”. You will see that the “Moon” will turn around its axis, and from the “Earth” there will be still only one side of it is visible.

Answer from skinny[guru]
it's all about how the sun illuminates it.

Answer from Yoshiko[guru]
I'm still wondering how this happens lunar eclipses. I understand the sun: the moon covered the sun. And what covers the moon, there is nothing between us.

Answer from ~Messenger of Heaven~[guru]
By the way, I heard this version: on the other side of the moon there is a base of UFO ships. people tried to fly there, but they won’t let us in

Answer from Dmitry Chirkov[guru]
rotation periods coincide

Answer from Kenshi Hemuro[guru]
Because the moon does not rotate on its axis

Answer from Pavel Kulikov[newbie]
Since this is the good side, and the evil one hides behind it and feeds power from the shadows))) XD

Answer from Destroyer[newbie]
link
Why on visible side There are more craters on the moon than on the back
side?
Hypothesis.
After a massive bombardment by meteorites, the Moon's center of gravity changed.
The more massive side of the Moon entered gravitational
interaction with the Earth. The tumbler principle.
The moon stopped rotating, only vibrations called
– libration.

Answer from Alexander Green[guru]
this is how nature wanted it, why is not our business, why is it not for us to judge

Answer from Kghhy grfgf[newbie]
The period of the Moon's revolution around the Earth, when it occupies a consistently identical position among the stars when observed from the Earth, is called a sidereal month. It is 27.3 days. The rotation of the Moon around its axis occurs at a constant angular velocity in the same direction in which it revolves around the Earth. The period of rotation of the Moon around its axis is equal to the period of its revolution around the Earth - 27.3 days. That is why from the Earth we see only one hemisphere, which is called the visible, and the other, hidden from our eyes, the invisible hemisphere is called the far side of the Moon.

Answer from Oleg Pestryakov[guru]
Regardless of whether we see the Moon at full moon, when it is illuminated by the Sun, or when it is partially or completely in shadow, the Moon always faces the Earth with one side. Moving around the Earth along a complex trajectory and returning to its original place approximately once every 11 years, the Moon simultaneously rotates around its axis so that one of its sides is always turned towards the Earth. This probably happens because the center of mass of the Moon is shifted towards the Earth and does not allow it to rotate freely. It even sways like a roly-poly, thanks to which from the Earth you can see slightly more of the surface of the Moon than half of it. It was possible to look at the other side for the first time on October 7, 1959 (7/X/1959), when the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna-3 successfully photographed the far side of the Moon. This is what the first photograph of the Moon looks like, taken on October 7, 1959 by the Luna-3 station. Not very high quality, but it was the first... View of the Moon from the reverse side. Strictly speaking, the Moon is very slowly, but still moving away from the Earth, and in a few hundred million years it may leave it if humanity does not want to hold on to it by that time and does not learn to correct its orbit...

Why do we only see one side of the Moon?

The Moon floats high in the sky, bright, beautiful, with dark spots on its shiny disk. On a full moon, it resembles someone’s round, good-natured, slightly mocking face. We always see her like this. And before us, for thousands of years, people looked at the exact same Moon and the dark spots were distributed on it in the same way, which make it look like a human face. For thousands of years, people have been observing changes in her bright face - from the thin sickle of a newborn month to the full radiance of her disk. Meanwhile, the Moon is a ball, the same as other planets, including our Earth, on which you and I live. But the Moon never shows us its other side, we do not see it. Why?

The Moon rotates around its axis and at the same time makes its way around the Earth, because it is a satellite of the Earth.

In twenty-nine and a half days it completes its revolution around the Earth, and... it takes the same amount of time to turn around its axis - so slowly does it complete this revolution. And that's the whole point. That's why we always see only one side of her.

But how does this happen? So that you can imagine this more clearly, let's do a little experiment. Take some small table (if there is no table, a chair or something else that is more convenient for you, that will be at hand). This chair will be the imaginary Earth, and you yourself will be the Moon, which revolves around the Earth. Start moving around the table, remaining facing it the entire time. At the beginning of your movement, for example, you saw a window in front of you, but then, as you make your circle around the table (that is, the Earth), this window will be behind you, and only at the end of the path will you see it again . This will only confirm that you have turned not only around the table, but also around yourself, your axis.

That's how the Moon is. It rotates around the Earth and at the same time around its own axis.

But everyone now knows that we finally saw the far side of the Moon! How did this happen? Do you remember?.. However, no, you don’t remember this: in those years you were still too young! And this happened in 1959, when Soviet scientists launched an automatic station towards the Moon, which flew around our satellite and transmitted images from the other side to us on Earth. And people all over the world saw the far side of the Moon for the first time!

And that's not all. A few years later, Soviet scientists again sent an automatic station towards the Moon, and this time again photographs were taken and sent to Earth. Thanks to the images, scientists then compiled the first map of both sides of the lunar surface, and then a new color map of the Moon with lunar seas, mountain ranges, the most important peaks, ring crater mountains, and circuses.

While I was writing these pages, one news followed another. Before I had time to tell you about the new color map, an amazing event happened: in February 1966, the world’s first automatic station, ours, the Soviet one, landed on the Earth’s satellite! She made, as scientists say, a soft landing - this means that she landed on the Moon smoothly, without breaking the equipment.

Having softly landed on the moon, the automatic station immediately began to work hard - it sent more and more pictures of the lunar surface, and these pictures were taken at close range. But this is extremely important! The images were large and accurate: scientists simply pounced on these amazing documents and looked at them carefully; Now they saw what the surface of the Moon was like, what was on it, they affirmed or, on the contrary, changed their points of view about the lunar surface.

Luna 9 made a soft landing on our satellite, the Moon. And soon after that, in March 1966, Luna 10 was launched.

She began to fly around the Moon, that is, she became its artificial satellite, and the Luna-10 instruments sent messages to Earth that scientific researchers needed to better know our celestial neighbor.

"Luna-10" made its endless flight around the Moon, so close and familiar, and in the first days the whole world could hear the melody of the Communist anthem - "Internationale" - coming from it.

After "Luna-10" there were also "Luna-11", and "Luna-12", and "Luna-14", and "Luna-16"... Our messengers are constantly soaring into outer space, they are paving the first paths to our heavenly neighbor. And the most difficult and most important thing is always what is done for the first time!

However, the news in recent years is amazing! American astronauts, on the Apollo 11 spacecraft, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins in July 1969 were the first to fly to the Moon, two of them, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, set foot on its surface, the third, Michael Collins, was waiting them, making circles around the Moon.

The names of these cosmonauts will go down in history just like the name of our glorious Gagarin, who was the first to go into space and see our planet Earth from the outside.

And a very special place in the study of our celestial neighbor is occupied by the amazing Lunokhod-1 apparatus, delivered to the Moon in November 1970. He worked hard there, doing man's work to explore the lunar surface. This amazing device only worked on a lunar day, when it could charge its batteries from solar energy. And on a moonlit night he rested, as they affectionately said about him: he slept.

Really, all this looks like a fairy tale.

And it may well happen that during the time this book is being printed, new amazing events will occur and we will have to expand this chapter, although at first we were going to talk about only one thing: why we don’t see the far side of the Moon.

Falling stars

I don’t know about you, but I have always loved looking at the sky on quiet, cloudless evenings. I loved finding constellations, some were difficult to find, others were easy, such as Ursa Major or Cassiopeia.

On dark August nights, when the sky becomes completely black, a wide, bright road of stars is clearly visible - Milky Way. I stood for a long time with my head thrown back, so that my neck ached, and admired dark sky, stars and silver moon.

But... what is this? A fiery dot traced the sky and went out. “The star has fallen,” say those who saw it.

Star? No, this is something completely different, because stars do not fall. These are small pebbles, specks of dust that are carried in outer space and with terrible speed, attracted by the Earth, they fly into the atmosphere and burn up! We see this short flash and say: the star has fallen!

Little celestial guests that burn up somewhere very high above the Earth are called meteors.

In August, October and November, the Earth encounters especially a lot of cosmic dust, clouds, and pebbles during its journey around the Sun. That is why at this time you can often see fiery flashes in the sky. This means that the Earth encountered whole swarms of meteors and “space debris” on its way, and it flared up as it flew into our atmosphere.

It happens that dozens of meteors flash in the sky at once and " star Rain" continues until the Earth passes the meteor shower.

A shower of stars fell over Moscow more than twenty years ago, in 1946. Only we couldn’t observe it because the sky was covered with clouds. It was very annoying!

And there are not rains, but simply stellar showers! But this happens very rarely. At the end of the last century, several such showers occurred; they could be observed both in the skies of America and over Europe. It was a magnificent fireworks display created by nature itself.

Star showers, and especially star showers, are an exceptional phenomenon. You can live your life and not see them. But we can always observe lonely fiery dots flashing and extinguishing in the dark August sky, lonely “shooting stars”. Just remember: these are not stars - stars never fall! This is cosmic dust. Dust particles flare up due to strong air resistance when they fly into earth's atmosphere. They flash and go out!

Why is there day and night?

I woke up at eight o'clock. Outside the window it’s night time! I remembered that today is December 22nd, the day winter solstice when we, in the Northern Hemisphere, have the most long night the shortest day of the year.

That year there was no snow for a long time, or rather, there was snow, but it didn’t lie there for a long time - it melted. Mud, puddles, piercing wind and darkness - at four o'clock in the afternoon you need to turn on the lights!

I don’t like this time of year, the time of very late, prolonged autumn, and I always look forward to the cherished December 22nd, when the sun, as they say, turns to summer, and winter to frost. After the winter solstice, the days begin to gradually increase, and the nights begin to shorten, at first for just a minute, and then you see - in a month and an hour it will increase. But winter is coming into its own: frosts are cracking, snow is falling, and the twilight turns blue, almost purple...

Day and night... Change of light and darkness... The most ordinary, most constant, unchanging phenomenon of nature, it goes on forever in a routine manner. But why is this happening?

Once upon a time, in ancient times, not only children, but also adults asked themselves this question and did not find the correct answer to it. Millennia passed before man understood and explained this phenomenon.

The constant satellite of our planet has excited the minds of people since the birth of humanity. Even in ancient writings and runic Vedas there are references to a constant night guest. The ancients already knew that the Moon controls many processes on the planet, back side which was endowed with mystical properties. The Moon (from the ancient Indian louksna - “bright-eyed”) is a sorceress who inspires poets and artists, the patroness of lovers and a symbol of romanticism.

Heroine of ancient tales

The runic Vedas speak of three moons that accompanied the planet Midgard (Earth). The smallest Lelya, average Month and big Fattu. In the Russian “Songs of the Gamayun Bird,” the first great Flood (112 thousand years ago) occurred as a result of the death of Lelya.

The second was destroyed by the Atlanteans, destroying Atlantis 13 thousand years ago. And people were left with one last and most mysterious moon with a rotation period of 29.5 days.

Oddly enough, NASA research today hypothesizes the existence of several Earth satellites in the distant past. They even created a “Trojans” model, where the satellites are called “Trojan asteroid moon.”

back side

Since Galileo's discovery in 1635, for which he was burned by the Inquisition, the secrets hidden side Moons have captured the minds of astronomers. Legends are legends, but Galileo, using his primitive telescope with a magnification of only 3 times, examined the craters and mountains on the Moon, made a map of the surface and made assumptions about the origin of the craters. Repeated observations only increased interest in the question: “Why do we see only one side of the Moon?”

What versions and hypotheses have not been put forward! From the fact that it is flat to the halographic model. What is on the far side of the Moon, people saw with their own eyes in 1959, when the Soviet satellite Luna-3 took the first pictures invisible side Moons.

What kind of hidden moon are you?

The following became clear from the photographs. The surface on the far side of the Moon is similar to the visible one, but there is a clear geographic asymmetry. 80% of the lunar seas were on the visible side, and only two on the reverse side large seas- Moscow and Dreams.

On the reverse side, the crust turned out to be thicker, there were more craters, they were wider and deeper. The largest, with a diameter of 591 kilometers, is the Hertzsprung multi-ring impact crater, whose depth is more than 4,500 meters. The thickness of the bark is uneven, in some places it is thicker, in others it is thinner. Why - there is no answer yet.

There is an explanation

The theory of libration explains why we see only one side of the Moon. Both the Earth and the Moon each rotate on their own axis. The gravitational forces of our planet cause tidal forces, which act on the Moon in a similar way to how it causes the ebb and flow of tides on Earth. Everyone knows that due to the attraction of the Moon, that part of our planet that is turned towards the satellite moves in a wave-like manner in its direction (tidal humps). The mass of the Moon is many times less than the mass of our planet; accordingly, the force of the Earth’s influence on the Moon is many times greater. It was the balancing of these forces that synchronized the rotation of the Moon.

More is visible than is not visible

An attentive observer will notice changes in the lunar appearance. Astronomy reports that we see 59% of the entire surface of the Moon. The satellite's longitude and latitude fluctuate, allowing it to see an additional 6.5 degrees above and below the planet's poles. This occurs as a result of the displacement of the Moon’s axis relative to the trajectory of motion and the deviation of the Earth’s ecliptic (plane of rotation) towards the Sun. This Luna is such a coquette! The downside is still smaller.

Who's in charge?

Research and calculations show that such a small planet with a diameter of almost 3,500 kilometers, 384 kilometers away from the Earth, with a mass of 60% of the Earth’s, is a necessary condition the existence of our home in solar system. And although our satellite is moving away from us at a speed of 38 mm per year, its loss does not threaten us within the lifetime of our Sun.

Earth - Moon: what is the future?

According to confirmed information, in Devon (410 million years ago) the day consisted of 21.8 hours. The moon was closer to us, the tides were stronger and more powerful. An increase in our day by 23 microseconds per year will lead to the fact that in five billion years the year on the planet will be reduced to nine days, and the Moon will rotate once a day in the future. And all this is the braking attraction of the Moon. It slows down the Earth's rotation around its axis by 0.00164 seconds per day.

Lunar program and space law

With the advent of the era of astronautics and long before space flights, attempts were made by countries and people to lay claim to space objects. To prevent disputes such as who was the first to fly to the moon - that's it, since 1937, attempts have been made to create a legal framework in space exploration. As a result of the work of international lawyers, in 1967, more than a hundred countries ratified the treaty defining the principles of activities in outer space. This was the first legal document in space, and others followed.

It is worth recalling here that the sale and purchase of plots on the Moon by approximately four million inhabitants of the planet has no legal force. The enterprising American Dennis Hope, who in 1980 declared himself the owner of all space objects in our galaxy (at least he excluded the Earth and the Sun), became a millionaire. But the buyers of his certificates only own beautiful pieces of paper.

Secrets of the far side of the moon

Kilograms of soil from the Moon, hundreds of experiments, 6 landings on the Moon in the US Apollo program alone - and many unanswered questions. We will list only the most interesting ones.

• Why promising American project for Lunar Exploration "Avatars: Costumes" virtual reality» no longer funded?
• Where did the energy come from to broadcast from American complex, left on the Moon, that it was sending signals after more than two years, although its batteries were designed to last only a year?
• Calculations show that the Moon is hollow inside. What's in this 70 million cubic kilometer cavity? This fact is confirmed by the echo on the Moon, which was measured by the crews of Apollo 12. It lasted almost three and a half hours and spread over 40 kilometers.
• What did American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the one who first flew to the Moon and landed on it, actually see? After all, the falsification of the material shown to us about his landing has been proven.
• Why is it that if our satellites from orbit take pictures of streets with clearly visible license plates, we have such low resolution photographs of the nearby planet Moon? The reverse side is generally represented by a minimum number of pictures. What are space corporations hiding from us?

A lot of theories and guesses have accumulated around the favorite of poets. Psychics and astrologers, mystics and fortune tellers connect the fate of people and the Universe with a silent and sad night guest. A symbol of dreams and hopes, a talisman of dreamers and romantics, our constant companion the Moon - how many secrets have you not yet revealed and how many surprises will you present to people?