And, as the spacecraft images at top show, the moon's two faces its near side and far side look very different from each other. The moon's The far side of the Moon is the hemisphere of the Moon that always faces away from Earth. However, the near side also receives sunlight reflected from the Earth, known as earthshine. Earthshine does not reach the area of the far side that Two tidal bulges are created on opposite sides of the Earth due to the moon's gravitational force and inertias counterbalance. On the opposite side of the Earth, or the far side, the gravitational attraction of the moon is less because it is farther away. The corresponding distorting effect on the moon, called the lunar body tide, is more difficult to see, because the moon is solid except for a molten core. But Earth's pull raises a small bulge about 20 inches (50 centimeters) from the surface on the near side of the moon and a matching bulge on the far side.
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