NASA releases the first video of the dark side of the moon

On Thursday scientists at NASA announced that they had captured the first ever video of the dark side of the moon (the side we never see here from Earth).  This side of the moon is especially marred with craters from meteor and asteroid impacts.

The images were created by twin spacecraft called GRAIL.  In a few weeks eighth graders from all over the USA will be able to send requests to the GRAIL spacecraft to photograph particular areas of the moon that they deem interesting.