far side
noun
1
: the farther side
the far side of the lake
2
or farside
: the side of the moon away from the earth
the lunar farside
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Just two years later, in 1959, the USSR launched Luna 3, which took a total of 29 photographs of the lunar far side, covering 70% of the area that had previously been invisible to humans.
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Big Think, 21 Nov. 2025
Our star’s rotation has now carried this sunspot to the sun’s far side and thus out of firing range—but the active region may well survive the two-week trek to face Earth again.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
The fox had limped a few paces toward the far side of the path when the nightingale thought of something.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
The researchers suggest that the hematite grains were produced by massive impact events, like those that created the South Pole–Aitken basin and the Apollo crater on the moon’s far side.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
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Big Think, 21 Nov. 2025
Our star’s rotation has now carried this sunspot to the sun’s far side and thus out of firing range—but the active region may well survive the two-week trek to face Earth again.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
The fox had limped a few paces toward the far side of the path when the nightingale thought of something.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
The researchers suggest that the hematite grains were produced by massive impact events, like those that created the South Pole–Aitken basin and the Apollo crater on the moon’s far side.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
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“Far side.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/far%20side. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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