Editing Luna 3 (section)

== Legacy ==

The images were analysed, and the first atlas of the far side of the Moon was published by the [[USSR Academy of Sciences]] on 6 November 1960.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Akademiëiìa |first1=Nauk |title=Atlas of the far side of the moon |url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/3186 |website=University of Michigan Library |date=22 May 1961 |hdl=2027.42/3186 |access-date=23 January 2024}}</ref> It included a catalog of 500 distinguished features of the landscape.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [http://heritage.sai.msu.ru/hist/150let.html Chronology, 1804–1980, to the 150th anniversary of GAISh – Moscow State University observatory]. [[Moscow State University|MSU]]</ref> In 1961, the first globe (1:{{val|13600000}} [[Scale (map)|scale]])<ref name="SAI">{{in lang|ru}} [http://selena.sai.msu.ru/Symposium/maps_r.doc Moon maps and globes, created with the participation of Lunar and Planetary Research Department of SAI]. [[Sternberg Astronomical Institute|SAI]]</ref> containing lunar features invisible from the Earth was released in the [[USSR]], based on images from Luna 3.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shevchenko |title=The First Maps, Atlas and Globus of the Farside. In: Lunar and Planetary Cartography in Russia. |date=2016 |publisher=Astrophysics and Space Science Library |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-21039-1_1 }}</ref> Features that were named include [[Mare Moscoviense]] and craters called after [[Tsiolkovskiy (crater)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]], [[Jules Verne (crater)|Jules Verne]], [[Sklodowska (lunar crater)|Marie Curie]] and [[Edison (crater)|Thomas Edison]].<ref name="Reichi">{{cite book |last1=Reichl |first1=Eugen |title=The Soviet Space Program - The Lunar Mission Years: 1959 to 1976 |date=2019 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing Ltd |page=29 |id={{ASIN|0764356755|country=au}} }}</ref>