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.
Lunar lander captures first high-definition picture of sunset on the moon
A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the Moon. Firefly Aerospace and Nasa released the photos on Tuesday, taken before the Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend. One of the pictures is a close-up taken from near the moon's surface, showing the setting sun on the moon's horizon.
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
NASA and private space company Firefly have released unprecedented images showing an eclipse and a sunset from the Moon. The video clips and accompanying pictures provide ...
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