One of the most beautiful drawings of the Moon ever! Two large sheets (at 1:5 million scale) depict first and last quarter Moons. Josef Klepesta, the artist, started with telescopic photos and added detail and relief so that each area appears under approximately the same sun angle - was this the first time such equal lighting was attempted?

On page 35 of the text appears this map of the lunar farside, based on the images from the 1959 Soviet photography by "an interplanetary station." This map - which unfortunately loses resolution in our small reproduction - is the clearest rendition of the major features that were interpreted from the full Moon photos. The craters were correctly recognized, but the 2000 km long Soviet Mts were the biggest photo-interpretation error ever! The bright line is not a mountain range but a pattern of crater rays; the Soviet Mts proved as ephemeral as the Soviet Union!