I think you see 2 distant faces blending where color is darker.
Maybe Culling is not activated.
Face culling is the ability to discard face drawing upon certain condition.
To achieve what you want, You have to discard faces not facing the camera which is call backface culling. You do this:
glEnableGL(GL_CULL_FACE); //(enable face culling)
glCullFace(GL_BACK); //(discard back faces)