The July full moon, also known as the Buck Moon, occurs on July 10. It will share the evening sky with Mars and Saturn.

This happens when the moon is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth. Earth normally doesn't block the sunlight because the Moon's orbit is slightly tilted.

Chang'e-6 landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the opposite side of the moon to Earth on June 1 and has now returned bearing lunar rocks and dust. advertisement. Newsweek.

A full moon occurs when it’s on the opposite side of the earth so that it reflects the light of the sun, and usually happens every twenty-nine days or so, for a total of 12 full moon dates in 2024.

It wasn’t until 1959 when the Soviet Luna 3 probe gave us our first glimpse of the Moon’s far side, and it wasn’t until 2019 when the Chang’e 4 mission made the first soft landing.

These simulations showed that as a plasma cloud arose from the impact, some of it would have expanded into space, while the rest would stream around the moon and concentrate on the opposite side.

That's because it's occurring just a few weeks before the summer solstice on June 21, 2023 when the sun is highest in the Northern Hemisphere's sky: As the full moon is on the opposite side of ...

The Chang'e-4 spacecraft became the first to visit the moon's far side in 2019. The moon's far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side's flat, dark plains carved by lava flows.

There’s no real “dark side” of the moon, but the far side, which faces away from Earth, is different from the near side we see every day. Samples could reveal why.

Chang'e-6 landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the opposite side of the moon to Earth on June 1 and has now returned bearing lunar rocks and dust.