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In this view, the virtual camera is at a constant 45° angle ahead of the subsolar point, the location on the Moon where the Sun is directly overhead. With apologies to Pink Floyd, it should be obvious from this that there's no literal dark side of the Moon. The far side (the one facing away from the Earth) is only \"dark\" in the archaic sense of \"mysterious\" or \"unknown.\" While many scientific questions remain about the far side, we now know its color and shape with high accuracy, making it possible to simulate its appearance from any viewing and sunlight angle.
Near the terminator (day-night line), the Moon's rugged terrain, its craters, mountain ranges, rilles, wrinkles and cracks, are thrown into high relief by the low Sun angle. These topographic outlines fade like ghosts under full Sun, leaving in their place the dark maria and the bright ejecta and sprawling rays around relatively young craters.",
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