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The first Map of the Lunar Farside at 1:10,000,000 scale was published in the Soviet Union on the basis of images of the Luna 3 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on 4th October 1959. New methods for processing the original photographic images developed by Yu. N. Lipsky largely eliminated the radio interference enabling the identification of many real features of the lunar terrain. The newly discovered surface features were compiled onto a map using a unified selenographic coordinate system. The Atlas of the Lunar Farside, published in 1960, includes 30 photographs taken by Luna 3, the results of their analysis and a catalogue with detailed descriptions of 729 identified features. The first globe, showing the nearside and a part of the farside. was produced in 1961. |
