Watch the sun set over the moon in epic video from private Blue Ghost lunar lander
The solar-powered Blue Ghost shut down on Sunday evening (March 16), shortly after the sun set over its lunar locale. The lander watched our star's descent and disappearance over the cratered horizon, capturing the oncoming, killing darkness in a poignant video that Firefly shared with the world today (March 18).
Blue Ghost Lander Captures Stunning Sunset Shots on the Moon Before Falling Silent
Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the stunning photos Tuesday, taken before the Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend. One shot included Venus in the distance. Firefly’s Blue Ghost landed on the moon on March 2,
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost falls silent on the moon after a 2-week mission
It’s lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission . Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. An astrophotographer recently managed to capture a shot of a “plasma tree” on the ...
The sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.
The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections ...
In the image below, blue regions are moving toward the ... the magnetic field lines can be seen sticking out from the sun's surface. Wisps of plasma protrude out of the sun along these lines ...
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