Satellite May Be Going To Planet
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MOSCOW, August 16.
Russia’s latest picture-taking Zond 111 satellite headed off into space yesterday after relaying more photographs of the moon’s hidden side back to earth.
Observers speculated that the rocket could be making for either Mars or Venus, though neither of these plan-
ets is in a favourable position at present. The Soviet news agency, Tass, said on Sunday that more pictures were expected from Zond 111 when it came into the earth’s relay range again. But the agency did not make it clear whether these would be shots of the moon or of a planet. Press reports in Moscow today said Soviet scientists expected to receive more “valuable information about interplanetary space” from the probe. Zond 111, launched on July 18, completed the survey of the side of the moon that cannot be seen from earth. Two-thirds of this “mystery" side were mapped by a previous Soviet probe, Luna 111, in 1959.
Zond 111, also took many shots of the visible side of the moon, and Soviet scientists now expect to be in a position to map the whole of the moon.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30831, 17 August 1965, Page 15
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