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Oct 7, 2011 · Luna 3's mission objective was to provide the first photographs from the moon's far side. To achieve this, the probe was equipped with a dual-lens 35mm camera, one a 200mm, f/5.6 aperture, the ...
Mar 28, 2011 · The far side — sometimes incorrectly referred to as the “dark side” — remained hidden from human eyes until 1959, when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft first snapped photos of it.
Aug 7, 2015 · NASA this week released photographs of the far side of the moon, providing a lunar perspective we rarely get to see. ... But the dark side cooled first, making it older with more craters, Keller ...
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The mission to photograph the far side of the Moon was led by Sergei Korolev, the father of Soviet cosmonautics and the mastermind of most of the groundbreaking Soviet achievements in space exploration. The plan was relatively easy: to launch a cylindrical canister — a space probe — into space towards the Moon and let the gravity do the rest. The s...
The signal from Luna-3 was received by a radio antennamounted on top of a mountain peak in Crimea. To Korolev’s despair, local staff reported communication problems: Luna-3 did not receive some of the commands from Earth. The chief ordered his team to follow him to Crimea to urgently mitigate the situation. Once the all-powerful Korolev arrived in ...
In another part of the world, French winemaker Henri Maire read about the Soviet achievement and admitted he had lost his own bet. Mere sent 1,000 bottles of champagne by post to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The Academy’s president ordered the bottles to be delivered to the team who worked on the Luna 3 project. “We had the honor of receivi...
- Nikolay Shevchenko
Aug 6, 2015 · The photographs and a corresponding GIF show the fully illuminated "dark side" of the moon, which is never visible from Earth due to a phenomenon called tidal locking, NASA said in a statement.
- Amy Legate-Wolfe
Dec 9, 2018 · Rather, it experiences day/night cycles just like the near side. When we see half of the moon being illuminated by the sun, giving it a half or crescent shape in the sky, half of the moon on the ...
Aug 6, 2015 · The far side of the Moon was first observed in 1959, when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft returned the first images. Since then, several missions by NASA and other space agencies have imaged the lunar far side. (For instance, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft captured a similar view of Earth and the Moon from a distance of 31 million miles in 2008 ...
