What does an eclipse seem like from the moon? Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander simply despatched again a surprising picture from the lunar floor.
The business area firm’s lander, which touched down on the moon’s surface without a hitch on March 2 as a part of a mission for NASA, took a high-definition picture of the total lunar eclipse from its prime deck within the early hours of Friday — and it is mighty lovely.
“Blue Ghost caught her first take a look at the photo voltaic eclipse from the Moon round 12:30 am CDT on March 14 from our touchdown website in Mare Crisium,” Firefly wrote with the release of the image. “Discover the glowing ring of sunshine emerge within the reflection of our photo voltaic panel as Earth started to dam the solar.”
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Blue Ghost’s view of the photo voltaic eclipse from the Moon.
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According to the company, it is “the primary time in historical past a business firm can be actively working on the Moon and in a position to observe a complete photo voltaic eclipse the place the Earth blocks the solar and casts a shadow on the lunar floor.”
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched on Jan. 15 and landed on the moon on March 2 after 45-day journey — and the photos Blue Ghost has been sending back are breathtaking. Within the above photograph, you can even see the Blue Ghost lander’s NASA gear, together with a Lunar Atmosphere heliospheric X-ray Imager, Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder mast, and X-band antenna.
On Friday, Firefly additionally posted an image taken on March 3, the day after Blue Ghost landed on the moon, of a view of Earth taken with the lander’s wide-lens digital camera.
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Firefly is now the first commercial spacecraft to efficiently land on the moon — and Mashable’s been covering every last element of the mission.
