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This Lunar Time Machine Shows the Far Side of the Moon in Eye-Opening Detail

You want Moon? NASA has Moon.
​Screengrab: ​YouTube

​At the end of last year, NASA used data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to create an interactive lunar​ ​time machine allowing you to see what the Moon will look like on any night throughout 2015.

According to NA​SA, after they released the images, a number of people reached out asking "what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth." NASA was like "we got this."

So they made a separate video with images the LRO has captured from the far side of the Moon, which lacks the dark spots called ​maria we are used to seeing on our side. It also has one of the largest and oldest craters in the solar system, the the South Pole-Aitken basin, which can be seen clearly in the video:

Seriously, if you want to know what the Moon looks like (or will look like) from pretty much any angle, at any time, just ask. NASA's got the Moon covered.