Why is the dark side of the Moon not black or shadow like as opposed to the transparent look it gives off during the day?
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The side of the moon you see at day isn’t the dark side of the Moon, it’s the “bright” side.
The Moon is tidally locked with the Earth. It means that each times it does a full revolution around the Earth, it does a full revolution around itself. See it this way : turn around a tree somewhere. But carefully keep your eyes on the tree when you do it. You’re body turns on itself (aka, your foot are not always pointed toward the same direction), and you’ll find that you make a whole turn each time you complete a revolution around the tree. That is what the Moon does. No matter which part of the day, or night, no matter where you are on Earth, the Moon ALWAYS shows you its face. Not his back.
That’s why the other side is the “Dark Side”. Not because it’s dark (it ain’t, it’s the same colour), not because it’s in the dark (it ain’t, it receives light from the same the same way the “bright” side does), but because we can’t see it.
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