Firefly Releases Stunning Footage of Blue Ghost Landing on the Moon
The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down within a 328-foot (100-meter) target next to a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille.
Private spacecraft nails Moon landing: first images of Blue Ghost on the lunar surface
A four-legged robot from Texas landed squarely on the Moon on 2 March, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to execute a lunar landing without falling over or crashing. The lander, known as Blue Ghost and built by Firefly Aerospace, based in Cedar Park, Texas, aims to spend two weeks conducting science experiments provided by NASA.
This March's total lunar eclipse, first in two years, will turn the moon a striking rusty-red. Occurring March 13-14, 2025, ...
Firefly Aerospace became the second company to ever land on the moon on Sunday when its Blue Ghost spacecraft plopped onto the gray dust of ... toward a safe landing spot, orient itself to land ...
Though it was far from Juno's closest approach to Io, its flyby last December still led to a fascinating discovery: a massive volcanic hot spot on the moon's southern hemisphere. The volcanic ...
According to the space and astronomy news site Universe Today, the grey areas of the moon we can see from Earth represent an amalgamation of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium and aluminum.
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