Exploration of the Moon invention of the telescope, an increasing number of people began to recognise the Moon as a sphere, though many believed that it was "perfectly smooth". In 1609, Galileo Galilei drew one of the first telescopic drawings of the Moon in his book and noted that it was not smooth but had mountains and craters. Later in the 17th century, Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi drew a map of the Moon and gave many craters the names they still have today. On maps, the dark parts of the Moon's surface were called "maria" (singular "mare") or seas, and the
A Trip to the Moon (Chronicle) A Trip to the Moon (Chronicle) A Trip to the Moon is a 1964 television science fiction comedy film, produced as an episode of the CBS series "Chronicle". The script was written by Jonathan Miller and Robert Goldman, based on Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon". All characters are portrayed by Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Miller, and Dudley Moore, who had first worked together in the revue "Beyond the Fringe". The hour-long show adapts the plot of Verne's novel to comment satirically on the Moon race then underway between the United States and the Soviet Union, juxtaposing