Far side of the Moon side visible to Earth. On October 7, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photographs of the lunar far side, eighteen of them resolvable, covering one-third of the surface invisible from the Earth. The images were analysed, and the first atlas of the far side of the Moon was published by the USSR Academy of Sciences on November 6, 1960. It included a catalog of 500 distinguished features of the landscape. A year later, the first globe (1:13 600 000 scale ) containing lunar features invisible from the Earth was released in the USSR, based on images from
The Moon Maid Australia. The Moon Maid The Moon Maid is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, belonging to the Lost World sub-gerne. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title "The Moon Maid", Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title "Under the Red Flag", later retitled "The Moon Men", Part 3 was titled "The Red Hawk". As evident from its name, "Under the Red Flag" was originally set in contemporary Soviet Russia, with the Bolsheviks as villains; as this was not popular with the publishers, Burroughs transferred it to