The history of Soviet planetary and Lunar probes has been neglected in the West, and the pictures returned from these missions are difficult to find. This catalog brings together most of the available images from the Moon, Mars and Venus. Click on a lefthand image to enter a specific catalog page: Lunar Image Catalog Probe Year Mission Luna-3 1959 First photos of Lunar far side Zond-3 1965 Second photos of Lunar far side Luna-9 1966 First landing and surface panoramas Luna-12 1966 Photo orbiter Luna-13 1966 Landing and surface panoramas Zond-6 1968 Lunar Flyby and Earth Return Zond-7 1969 Lunar Flyby and Earth Return Zond-8 1970 Lunar Flyby and Earth Return Luna-17 1970 Lunokhod-1 rover Luna-20 1972 Sample return, surface panoramas Luna-21 1973 Lunokhod-2 rover Luna-22 1974 Lunar heavy orbiter Martian Image Catalog Probe Year Mission Mars-3 1971 Photo orbiter, First landing Mars-4 1973 Photo flyby Mars-5 1973 Photo orbiter Fobos-2 1988 Photo orbiter Venusian Image Catalog Probe Year Mission Venera-9 1975 Photo orbiter, First surface pictures Venera-10 1975 Surface panoramas Venera-13 1982 First color panoramas Venera-14 1982 Color panoramas Venera-15 1983 Synthetic Aperture Radar Mapping Venera-16 1983 Synthetic Aperture Radar Mapping Vega-1 1984 Venus, Halley's Comet Vega-2 1984 Venus, Halley's Comet Terrestrial Image Catalog Probe Year Mission Zenit 1962 First surveillance satellites Meteor 1966 Weather satellites Resurs-F 1979 Film-return resource satellites Yantar 1981 Film-return resource satellites Okean 1986 Image/Radar resource satellites Almaz-T 1987 Synthetic Aperture Radar Resurs-O 1988 Scanning resource satellites Orlets 1989 Film-return resource satellites