Humanity didn't get its first look at the far side of the moon until 1959. Locked away from earthly view by tidal forces, grainy Soviet Luna 3 pictures revealed a pockmarked surface, one far different than the lunar face.
Today, the lunar far side is the most radio-quiet region in the nearby solar system, blocked from Earth's incessant radio emissions by the vast bulk of the moon's body—the perfect platform to study the deepest corners of the radio universe.
But this sublime quiet won't last for long. Government and private actors have reawakened to the moon's intrigue, last closed with the Apollo era's ending more than 50 years ago.
To protect this otherworldly treasure, we should encourage governments to declare the far side of the moon as the first globally recognized off-world nature preserve, its use limited strictly to scientific endeavors with minimal human involvement.
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