How dark is the dark side of the moon?

Answer:
There is no "dark side of the moon". Every point on the moon is illuminated
for roughly 50% of the time, just like every point on earth.

However, we can only see about 55% of the Moon's surface, because its rotation matches the revolutions around the Earth. So the 'back side' of the Moon never faces Earth.
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