Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lander on The Moon | NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lander on The Moon | NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured this image of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander on the Moon. The lander touched down on March 2, 2025, near a volcanic feature within Mare Crisium with ten NASA science and technology instruments onboard. 

In this oblique view of the Blue Ghost landing site (see arrow). It is located about 4,000 meters from the center of Mons Latreille, a large volcanic cone. The lander is seen as bright pixel casting a shadow in the middle of the box (18.562°N, 61.810°E, -3650 meters elevation). The edge of Mons Latreille is visible in the lower left. This image is approximately 2,600 meters wide in the center, north is to the right.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was 175 kilometers east (19.294°N, 67.956°E) of the landing site when its Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) acquired this view of the landing site on March 2, 2025, at 17:49 UTC.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) celebrates its 16th anniversary orbiting the Moon (2009-2025) this year. The mission has given scientists the largest volume of data ever collected by a planetary science mission at NASA.

Learn more about NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/

Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

Article Credit: Mark Robinson
Release Date: March 4, 2025

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