Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped

Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by messe on Monday October 17, 2022 @05:45PM (#33239921)

While you're not wrong, the grandparent comment said that most of the "dark side" is not fully mapped, implying—at least to in reading of it—that the reason it's not mapped is due to it being the "dark side".

In reality though, our maps of the far side of the moon are as good as those on the near side.

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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped by sophacles on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:15PM (#33240216)

If you re-read the quoted bit it addresses this "dark side" vs "far side":

> The hemisphere is sometimes called the "dark side of the Moon", where "dark" means "unknown" instead of "lacking sunlight"

[ed note: compare "dark ages"]

So the "unknown" (relatively anyway) side of the moon is less mapped, but not because it's unlit, but because it's dark. The lit side of the moon is well mapped, not because it's always lit - sometimes it's unlit, but it's certainly the known bit as we've been looking at it since before we were human.

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