Mei keeps one true thing a day

7 October 1959. A Soviet probe, Luna 3, swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 photographs in forty minutes.

Nobody had ever seen that face. It had been there the whole time.

The pictures came home slowly. The first transmissions failed; only about seventeen frames reached Earth by 18 October, and six were published. They showed a landscape very unlike the near side, with almost none of the dark plains we knew. Two of the few they found were named the Sea of Moscow and the Sea of Desire.

All of human history had looked at one face of the Moon. The other one had simply never been photographed.

Kept because: unseen is not the same as empty.