Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has snapped a beautiful picture of a photo voltaic eclipse from the Moon through which Earth covers up many of the Solar, leaving solely the so-called diamond ring impact. It additionally seems to be almost equivalent to the emblem of the early 2000s genre show Heroes.
The lander snapped the picture at round 1:30AM ET on Friday morning, because the Earth slowly blocked a view of the Solar. The photo voltaic eclipse on the Moon occurred concurrently a complete lunar eclipse right here on Earth. Terrestrial viewers noticed the lunar floor flip a pink hue.
guys the moon is pink go outdoors pic.twitter.com/b7SftQh1Oy
— Kevin (@K3V1N) March 14, 2025
The eclipse lasted for round 5 hours on the lunar touchdown web site in Mare Crisium. Firefly launched one other picture from the sooner a part of the eclipse that reveals the lander’s photo voltaic panel because the Solar begins to cover behind Earth’s shadow. Cool stuff, proper?
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander efficiently touched down on the Moon on Sunday, March 2 at round 3:30AM ET. It landed upright, with no points. That is one thing that can not be stated about rival firm Intuitive Machines’ landers.
That is Firefly’s first mission to the Moon, so Blue Ghost is full of ten NASA devices designed to probe the lunar floor and collect knowledge to (hopefully) help upcoming human missions to the pure satellite tv for pc. That is all a part of NASA’s Business Lunar Payload Providers (CLPS) initiative. The lander is about to function on the lunar floor till March 16.
Firefly says it’s going to attempt to downlink extra photographs from the eclipse as soon as Blue Ghost’s X-band antenna has warmed up after being caught within the chilly all through the occasion. The corporate has already proven off some nifty POV footage of the touchdown.
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