state gov DSSSB Junior Assistant, Steno and LDC Mock Test 2023 - 24 Current Affairs Science and Technology
Consider the following statements about the near, far and dark side of the moon:
1. The near side refers to the portion of the moon — about 50% — that is visible to us.
2. The major difference between the near side and the far side is that the near side is relatively smoother and has many more ‘maria’ or large volcanic plains compared to the far side.
3. The ‘dark side’ is dark only in the sense that it was mysterious and its various topographical features hidden until the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 in 1959 photographed it and the Soviet Academy of Sciences released an atlas of these images.
How many of the above statements is/are correct?
1
Only one
2
Only two
3
All three
4
None of these