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
In my Craft or Sullen Art is cited at the start of the 1971 film "The Raging Moon" by Bryan Forbes starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman. In my Craft or Sullen Art "In my Craft or Sullen Art" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). First published in 1946 in "Deaths and Entrances", the poem describes a poet who must write for the sake of his craft rather than any material gains that may come from his work. <poem>In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their