Oct. 7, 1959: The First Photos of the Moon’s Farside Are Taken.
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Oct. 7, 1959: The first photos of the Moon’s farside are taken.
On Oct. 4, 1959, exactly two years after the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union scored another win when Luna 3 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and set off for the Moon. It was the third spacecraft in the Luna program, Luna 1 having overshot the Moon after a rocket-burn error, and LunaContinue reading "Oct. 7, 1959: The first photos of the Moon’s farside are taken"
On October 7, 1959, the far side of the Moon was photographed for the first time
The Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna-3 captured the far side of the satellite and transmitted its image to Earth. In total, during a 40-minute shooting session, 29 photos were taken from a distance of 63–67 thousand kilometers from the...
UNTIL 1959, humanity only knew one side of the Moon. Due to its synchronous rotation, the same hemisphere almost always faces the Earth, so the other side remained completely hidden from view for centuries.
Until the fall of 1959, humanity only knew one side of the Moon. The reason is that Earth's natural satellite rotates on its axis in about the same time it takes to orbit the planet, and almost always shows the same half. This changed with the mission of the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3. The device was launched on October 4, 1959 as part of the Soviet Union's lunar program. After flying behind the Moon on October 6, it found itself on the side that …
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