Lunar Globe

A 33 cm diameter lunar globe comprised of twelve paper gores and two polar calottes, 1:10,400,000 scale, mounted within metal half meridian ring on wooden stand with small compass embedded in the base. Some adhesive residue visible right of the Mendeleev crater (possibly inherent), minor wear to wooden base. 

A 33 cm diameter lunar globe comprised of twelve paper gores and two polar calottes, 1:10,400,000 scale, mounted within metal half meridian ring on wooden stand with small compass embedded in the base. Some adhesive residue visible right of the Mendeleev crater (possibly inherent), minor wear to wooden base.
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Based on the photography of Luna 3, the Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959. Luna 3 was the first space probe to photograph another planetary body, and the first mission to photograph the far side of the moon. Two of the twelve gores remain blank, as the spacecraft only photographed approximately 70% of the far side. The cartouche reads in part: "the map material was prepared by the Central Research Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography together with the Shternberg State Astronomic Institute of the U.S.S.R."