Saturday, March 15, 2025

Blue Ghost Moon Lander Captures Solar Eclipse | Firefly Aerospace

Blue Ghost Moon Lander Captures Solar Eclipse | Firefly Aerospace


Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander: "turns red! Our lander downlinked more imagery from the Moon captured around 2:30 am CDT during the totality of the solar eclipse last night. These images—rapidly captured by our top deck camera with different exposure settings—were stitched together in a quick clip. The red hue is the result of sunlight refracting through the Earth's atmosphere as the sun is blocked by our planet, casting a shadow on the lunar surface. The glowing ring of the eclipse is again seen on Blue Ghost’s solar panel."

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successful soft landed on the Moon’s Mare Crisium region on March 2, 2025 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.


Learn more about the mission: 

This is part of NASA’s CLPS initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term lunar presence. Blue Ghost Mission 1 will perform science and technology demonstrations, including lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, and X-ray imaging of Earth’s magnetic field to advance research for future human missions on the Moon and provide insights into how space weather impacts the planet. Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.

Video Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Duration: 13 seconds
Release Date: March 13, 2025

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