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Firefly’s blue ghost of Aerospace may only touched the moon, but it is already a home -speaking spectacular view of the Earth from the lunar surface after a historic landing today (March 2).
These incredible moon images taken from the private Blue Ghost Lander were shared by its builder, Fireply Aerospace, just hours after the lunar landing.
Blue Ghost touched the mare of the crisis (a sea of crises) after skillfully performing two maneuvers to avoid danger and achieved a precise landing within 328 feet (100 meters) from its target zone near the Mons LaTreille volcanic characteristics.
The blue ghost ghost of Firefly Aerospace was widely known. | Credit: NASA/Firefly Aerospace
“This is an incredibly challenging technical feat to withdraw, to land, everything on the surface of the moon,” said Joel Kierns, a deputy assistance administrator for a study at the NASA Scientific Mission Directorate during a press conference.
Shortly after landing, Aerospace FireSpace revealed this image from the moon’s surface, this is the first image acquired by Lunar Lander Blue Ghost. The images were released from the Blue Ghost S-stripes, with higher resolution images being expected in the next few hours when Lander expands its main antenna.
Firefly’s aerospace space emits this image from the moon’s surface, this is the first image acquired by Lunar Lander Blue Ghost. | Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Firefly has decided to give up the video stream of the blue ghost to release the frequency band for telemetry communication and several tools that were in operation during the descent, including a critical hazard avoidance system that helped Lander to avoid at least two potentially dangerous stones on the surface.
“NASA expected it would be relatively without danger, but that doesn’t mean there are no dangers, so you should always be prepared for it,” Aransworth said at the briefing. “And Lander was and we were able to work around and land safely.”
The second image, filmed by the blue ghost, shows that the farm sitting on the surface of the moon with a far -blue point – earth – in the background.
The second image, released from Firefly’s aerospace space, shows the blue ghost of lunar Lander on the surface of the moon with the ground in the background. | Credit: Firefly Aerospace
If you look more closely at the land reflected in the Lander panels, you can understand different details about our native planet.
A close -up view of Earth, reflected in the solar panel of Blue Ghost. | Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Shortly before the press conference ended, Firefly released this stunning image from the moon’s surface.
“We are all in this photo,” one of the participants said.
Blue Ghost has come on its lunar landing and is already sharing its first stunning view from the moon. | Credit: Firefly Aerospace
With the full landing, Blue Ghost will now start 14 days of surface operations, the equivalent of one full lunar day.
“The next 14 days will be really challenging and we will work to provide all science data from all 10 useful video loads, but I am convinced that the team will go through it,” said Jason Kim, CEO of Aerospace Aerospace during the press conference.
The main focus of the mission will take place on March 14, when Blue Ghost captures high resolution images of complete eclipse as the Earth darkens the sun in terms of the moon. Meanwhile, those of us on earth will witness the same event as Lunar eclipseturning the moon deep, ominous red.
On March 16, Lander will document the lunar sunset and examine how levitating dust is held in response to solar activity, a phenomenon observed for the first time during Apollo 17.
Leading the landing, Blue Ghost has traveled 2.8 million miles in 45 days, reducing 27GB of data and supporting research, including tracking record tracking of the global navigation satellite system and measuring radiation through Van Allen’s belts.
With the most difficult part behind them, Firefly is already focused on superficial operations and continues to demonstrate the capabilities of commercial lunar missions.