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
Moon (Korean name) of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 73.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Moon in their passports, while another 26.4% spelled it as Mun. There are 14 hanja with the reading Moon on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are: People with the single-syllable given name Moon include: Korean names containing the element Moon include: Moon (Korean name) Moon, also spelled Mun, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name,