What does an eclipse appear like from the moon? Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander simply despatched again a shocking picture from the lunar floor.
The industrial area firm’s lander, which touched down on the moon’s floor and not using a hitch on March 2 as a part of a mission for NASA, took a high-definition picture of the whole lunar eclipse from its prime deck within the early hours of Friday — and it is mighty lovely.
“Blue Ghost caught her first look at the solar eclipse from the Moon around 12:30 am CDT on March 14 from our landing site in Mare Crisium,” Firefly wrote with the discharge of the picture. “Notice the glowing ring of light emerge in the reflection of our solar panel as Earth began to block the sun.”
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Blue Ghost’s view of the photo voltaic eclipse from the Moon.
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Based on the corporate, it is “the first time in history a commercial company will be actively operating on the Moon and able to observe a total solar eclipse where the Earth blocks the sun and casts a shadow on the lunar surface.”
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched on Jan. 15 and landed on the moon on March 2 after 45-day journey — and the pictures Blue Ghost has been sending again are breathtaking. Within the above picture, you can even see the Blue Ghost lander’s NASA gear, together with a Lunar Setting heliospheric X-ray Imager, Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder mast, and X-band antenna.
On Friday, Firefly additionally posted a picture 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 primary industrial spacecraft to efficiently land on the moon — and Mashable’s been protecting each final aspect of the mission.
