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There is a dark
TRUE or
FALSE?
side of the Moon
Many moons ago, sky-gazers speculated
about a mysterious dark side of the
Moon that we never get to see because
the same side of the Moon always faces
Earth. Thanks to lunar landings and
satellite surveillance, we’re no longer
in the dark about the far side. Photographs of the
far side of the Moon
have been taken,
showing that the
far side gets just as
much sunlight as
the near side.
TIDAL FORCE
The Moon produces the daily tides in Earth’s
oceans. Gravitational forces on the Moon pull
on the water, creating bulges in the sea on
either side of the planet. These bulges cause
the regular rise and fall of the water level at
the sea’s edge that we call tides. The world’s
most extreme tides occur at the Bay of Fundy
in Canada (shown above at low and high tide).
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