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Camera onboard Luna 3 robotic probe The first photograph showing the far side of the Moon 7 October 1959 Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-base paper, 15.2 x 20.5 cm (6 x 8 in), a press photograph with Keystone Press Agency, London stamp, a printed caption providing an exhaustive explanation of the photo content affixed to the verso and with the "Svenska Dagbladets" archive stamp on the verso; annotation in pencil in lower margin Footnotes: Luna 3 transmitted 17 images of the Moon's far side which had been hidden from human eyes since the dawn of time. [Extract from the caption] Moscow releases amazing picture of the Moon. Moscow yesterday released this amazing photograph of the other side of the moon - based on pictures televised back to the Earth from cameras in the rocket Lunik 111, with the following explanation: Situation of objects on the Moon's reverse side as revealed in preliminary processing of photographs from automatic interplanetary station. 1) Large 300 km in diameter sea crater. Moscow Sea. 2) Astronauts Bay of Moscow. 3) Continuation of South Sea on Moon's reverse side. 4) Crater of Main Tsiolkovsky Hill. 5) Crater central Lomonosov Hill. 6) Joliot Curie crater. 7) Sovetsky mountain range. 8) Dream Sea. Solid line across the diagram shows Moon's equator, dotted line in border line between seen and unseen part of the Moon from Earth. Solid lines around objects show absolutely established objects determined in preliminary processing. Dotted line around objects show objects needed form clarity. Fine dots around objects show objects on which classification is now taking place. Remaining parts - further processing now taking place on received photo material. Objects with Roman numbers are those on seen side of the Moon (...)