I have one question:
Are there currently any landers on the near side of the Moon, the one side we can look at through the telescope here on Earth, or are all of them heading only to the dark side?
Are there currently any landers on the near side of the Moon, the one side we can look at through the telescope here on Earth, or are all of them heading only to the dark side?
https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Chandraya...
Also, every lander that's ever landed on the near side of the moon is still there.
Nitpick: it's the far side of the moon, not the dark side. Unless you mean "dark" as in "mysterious", but that's just misleading.
Cool! Can we spot them with powerful telescopes?
https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/hubble_moon...
On the other hand, some Lunar-orbit spacecraft have directly photographed prior landers. Here is an article with nice photographs from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the Apollo 17 landing site, in which the descent stage of the lander, and tracks leading to and from it, are clearly visible.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.htm...
and here is a timestamp showing an image that India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter took of the Apollo 11 landing site and descent stage.