Image: ESA's SMART-1 revealing unknown regions of the moon
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —The greyscale pattern of dark and light blotches on the Moon is a familiar sight to stargazers. However, there are regions that remained relatively mysterious to us until surprisingly recently – most notably the Moon's polar regions, which astronomers have dubbed 'Luna Incognita', or 'the unknown Moon'.