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,...
It is called the dark side of the moon because it never faces the earth, this is caused by the fact that the moon's rotation is the same number of days as it's revolution around the earth. Even...
The "dark side" usually refers not to the illuminated half of the Moon (of which we see varying amounts depending on the phase) but to the face of the Moon that is always pointed away from the Earth,...
'Dark side' is really a misnomer. The entire moon experiences daylight and night time, just as earth does. However, a full day (analogous to earth's 24 hour day) is an entire lunar cycle long on the...