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Jul 13, 2015 · Wide-angle view of the far side of the Moon from Luna 3 Target Object: Earth's Moon Mission: Luna 3
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Earth's Moon - Luna 3. First image of the far side of the Moon. The Luna 3 spacecraft …
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The dark spot to the southeast of Tsiolkovskiy is the crater Jules Verne. …
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The purpose of this experiment was to obtain photographs of the lunar surface as the spacecraft flew by the Moon. The imaging system was designated Yenisey-2 and consisted of a dual-lens camera AFA-E1, an automatic film processing unit, and a scanner. The lenses on the camera were a 200 mm focal length, f/5.6 aperture objective and a 500 mm, f/9.5 objective. The camera carri…
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA licenseFirst Photo of the Lunar Farside - Moon: NASA Science
Sep 26, 2017 · The dark spot to the southeast of Tsiolkovskiy is the crater Jules Verne. The mare in the northeast is Moscoviense. In October 1959, the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft took the first photo of the farside of the Moon - a …
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Luna 3 - NASA Solarsystem Collection
description: Luna 3, an automatic interplanetary station, was the third spacecraft successfully launched to the Moon and the first to return images of the lunar far side. The spacecraft …
Oct. 7, 1959: Luna 3's Images From the Dark Side
Oct 7, 2011 · Soviet space probe Luna 3 takes the first photographs of the far side of the moon. They aren't transmitted back to Earth until 11 days later.
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Luna 3 and the First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon
On October 7, 1959, Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 for the very first time photographed the far side of the Moon. Though it returned rather poor pictures by later standards, the historic, never-before-seen views of the far side of the Moon …
Oct. 7, 1959 – Our First Look at the Far Side of the Moon
Oct 7, 2013 · The first photo of the lunar far side taken by the Soviet (Russian) spacecraft Luna 3 on Oct. 7, 1959. The right three-quarters of the disk is the far side.
Earth's Moon - Luna 3 - NSSDCA
Earth's Moon - Luna 3. First image of the far side of the Moon. 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 …
First Close-up of the Far Side of Moon - NASA Science
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 …
