Category: The Moon

• August 19, 2026

  Strange Features on the Far Side of the Moon: A Closer Look at Paracelsus C

  More than fifty years ago, Apollo 15 photographed something unusual on the far side of the Moon. In a panoramic photograph taken from lunar orbit, two bright, sharply defined objects stood out from the otherwise subdued landscape on the floor of a crater called Paracelsus C. At the resolution available in the early 1970s, it…