How Luna 3 first unveiled the Moon’s farside - Astronomy Magazine
Oct 16, 2020 · When Luna 3 ventured around the Moon in 1959, it sent back images that shattered our view of the hidden hemisphere. For millennia, the Moon’s mysterious farside …
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First Photo of the Lunar Farside - Moon: NASA Science
Sep 26, 2017 · In October 1959, the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft took the first photo of the farside of the Moon - a region never before seen by human eyes.
Soviet Missions to the Moon - NSSDCA
- Launched 02 Jan 1959. Lunar Flyby.
- Launched 12 Sep 1959. Impacted Moon 14 Sep 1959 at ~07:30:00 UT. …
- Launched 04 Oct 1959. Lunar Flyby.
- Launched 02 Apr 1963. Lunar Flyby.
- Launched 09 May 1965. Impacted Moon - Sea of Clouds.
Far side of the Moon - Wikipedia
Until the late 1950s, little was known about the far side of the Moon. Librations periodically allowed limited glimpses of features near the lunar limb on the far side, but only up to 59% of the total surface of the Moon. These features were seen from a low angle, hindering useful observation (it proved difficult to distinguish a crater from a mountain range). The remaining 82% of the surfac…
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA licenseOct. 7, 1959 – Our First Look at the Far Side of the Moon
Oct 7, 2013 · That all changed 54 years ago today when the Soviet Union’s Luna 3 probe opened its camera shutter and snapped the first pictures of the lunar far side. Though blurry and banded with...
Earth's Moon - Luna 3 - NSSDCA
The Luna 3 spacecraft returned the first views ever of the far side of the Moon. The first image was taken at 03:30 UT on 7 October at a distance of 63,500 km after Luna 3 had passed the Moon and looked back at the sunlit far side.
APOD: October 7, 1999 - The Averted Side Of The Moon
On October 7th, forty years ago (7/X/1959), the Soviet interplanetary station which has come to be called "Luna 3" successfully photographed the far side of the moon giving denizens of planet Earth their first ever view of this hidden …
First Close-up of the Far Side of Moon - Science@NASA
Feb 14, 2018 · The Luna 3 spacecraft returned the first views ever of the far side of the Moon. The first image was taken at 03:30 UT on Oct. 7, 1959 at a distance of about 39,457 miles (63,500 kilometers) after Luna 3 had passed the Moon …
NASA SVS | Lunar Far Side: From Luna 3 to LRO
Oct 2, 2013 · Side by side comparison of the first ever photograph of the lunar far side, from Luna 3, and a visualization of the same view using LRO data. The LRO Moon includes latitude and longitude lines at 15-degree intervals.
