Lunar Lander Captures First High-Definition Video of a Sunset on the Moon
Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes of data back to Earth. This was the longest commercial mission on the Moon to date, and the first of a series of landers designed to touch down on the lunar surface on a yearly basis.
Before its mission came to an end, the Blue Ghost lander captured one more incredible view of sunset seen from the moon.
As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the first high-definition images of a lunar sunset.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would ...
Look west and see the sun set. Look east, the full moon rises. Seeing this phenomenon is impressive, but not unique, according to the Journal's astronomy expert, Kevin McKeown. In April, September, ...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private mission and delivering 10 NASA instruments to the Moon. The mission ...
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