How Luna 3 first unveiled the Moon's farside
How Luna 3 first unveiled the Moon's farside - Astronomy Magazine
On October 7, 1959, Luna 3 flew over the partly lit farside, shattering the illusion of homogeneity between the Moon's two hemispheres.
First Photo of the Lunar Farside - Moon: NASA Science
Luna 3 was the third spacecraft to reach the Moon and the first to send back pictures of the Moon's far side.
It was the first mission to photograph the far side of the Moon and the third Soviet space probe to be sent to the neighborhood of the Moon.
the Luna 3 spacecraft - the NSSDCA - NASA
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.
Seeing the Moon's Farside for the First Time - YouTube
We'll never see the Moon's far side from Earth, but Luna 3 brought us the first images in 1959. They aren't great, but they're pretty ...
Sixty-five years since the first lunar farside images - The Space Review
Luna 3 was the second spacecraft design in a sequence that Academician Mstislav Keldysh had proposed that the Soviets follow to explore the Moon ...
Farside surprise - Mare Moscoviense and Luna 3 - Jatan's Space
The first image of the lunar farside from Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 painted a surprising picture. The farside of the Moon lacked large mare areas ...
Far side of the moon revealed, half a century ago - Cosmos Magazine
It was taken 58 years ago, on 7 October, 1959, by the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft. For as long as humans have been able to appreciate the ...
The flight of Luna 3 - Sven's Space Place
The 29 exposures of the moon's far side were taken at 0330-0410 UT on 7 October 1959 when the probe was 65567-68785 km from the moon's centre (7). Intermittent ...
Early Moon Photos Revealed More Than Was Known - Space.com
Newly reprocessed images of the Moon's far side taken by Soviet spacecraft more than 40 years ago may have confirmed that the Moon's biggest impact scar was ...
Luna 3 and the First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon | SciHi Blog
On October 7, 1959, Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 for the very first time photographed the far side of the Moon.
Luna 3: first-ever mission to photograph the far side of the Moon
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The two-faced Moon | The Planetary Society
It wasn't until 1959 that we saw our Moon's farside for the first time. Because the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, humanity had only seen ...
Our First Look at the Moon's Far Side - Popular Science
In the late 1950s, both nations were fighting to get spacecraft to the Moon, and among those earlier lunar missions was the Soviet Luna 3, which ...
In 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 was the first to record images of the far side of the Moon. The images were of poor quality compared to later efforts.
New analysis reveals first detailed information about moon's far side
Earlier research based on remote sensing revealed that the moon's far side has different topography, a thicker crust, a different ...
Luna 3: Shedding Light on the “Dark Side” of the Moon
According to Korolev's plan, lunar far side photography would be performed by the E-2 and E-3 spacecraft after the E-1 impact missions. Unlike ...
The same side of the Moon always faces Earth, so we never see the ...
Probes Luna 1 and Luna 2 hit their target (Luna 2 actually crashed into the surface), but Luna 3 was designed to image the Moon's hitherto ...
Samples From the Moon's Far Side Have Just Arrived to Earth
The far side was first seen in 1959 when the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft captured several low resolution images of it. In 1962, NASA's ...
Far side of the Moon - Wikipedia
The Chang'e 6 sample-return mission was launched on May 3, 2024, landed in the Apollo basin in the southern hemisphere of the lunar far side and returned to ...