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  1. Luna 3 - Wikipedia

  2. First 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 …

  3. How Luna 3 first unveiled the Moon’s farside - Astronomy Magazine

  4. Luna 3 - NASA Solarsystem Collection

  5. 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.

  6. 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 …

  7. 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.

  8. 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 …

  9. 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 …