Solved cryptogram
There is no permanently dark side of the moon. Every part of it gets sunlight in its turn.
Astronomy Facts, sourced to NASA.
What it means
The phrase people mean is the far side, which is the hemisphere we never see from Earth, and it is a completely different claim. As the moon travels around us, sunlight falls on the whole surface in turn over the course of a lunar month. When we see a new moon, the far side is fully lit. The far side does look different, with far fewer of the dark volcanic plains that mark the near side.
The claim comes from NASA, and the page it comes from was read on 2026-08-27 to confirm it still says this.
This is not the kind of claim that goes out of date, which is why it was set as a puzzle rather than a fact with a shelf life.
Solve it yourself
This fact is a cryptogram here: 71 letters over 19 different ones, graded easy.
- SourceNASA
- CollectionAstronomy Facts
- Difficultyeasy
- Length71 letters, 19 of them different
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