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Sunrise on the moon, as seen by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lunar Lander. Firefly posted this photo on X on March 3, 2025. | Credit: Firefly Aerospace
The Blue Ghost Lander from Firefly Aerospace recorded a wonderful sunrise on the moon when it begins his working day on the moon surface.
Blue spirit Ahmt his moon landing Attempt on Sunday (March 2), near Mons Latreille, a lonely moon summit in the huge crisis of the pool mare (“Sea of Crises”) in the northeastern region of the moon nearby.
And the spaceship already turns into work, starts its scientific payloads and records Amazing pictures its surroundings and the distant Earth From the surface of the moon.
‘The latest picture, which was posted by Firefly on Monday (March 3) on the social media platform X, shows a dramatic sunrise, whereby the intense bright sun with shady craters on an uneven surface of the lunar.
“Rise and Shine! Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Captured Its First Sunrise on the Moon, Marking the Beginning of the Lunar Day and the Start of Surface Operations in Its New Home,” The post reads.
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Firefly added that many of the 10 NASA Science payloads The company began on board the landing and will continue in the next two weeks and on the moon night when the solar -powered mission is to be completed. The instruments will contribute to studies in a number of areas, including moon composition, geology and heat flow on the moon and Room weather. Blue Ghost will also test drilling technology, and its camera is to capture how Moon dust Levitated on the surface at sunset.
The landing that came 46 days after January 15th of the Blue Ghost start On A Spaceex Falcon 9 Rocket marked an enormous success for the company,
“Firefly is literally and figuratively above the moon,” said Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly opinion on Sunday.
“This brave, unstoppable team has proven that we are well prepared to offer reliable, affordable access to the moon, and we won’t stop here,” Kim continued. “With annual moon missions, Firefly paves the way for a permanent moon presence that will help to unlock access to the rest of the solar system for our nation, our partners and the world.”
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Blue Ghost was selected in the CLPS program (Commercial Lunar Payoad Services) of the NASA, with which private countries come to put the agency’s science and technology instruments on the moon Artemis program.
Private US company Intuitive machines‘Second Lander, the Athena IM-2 spaceship, is also part of CLPS. Athena Enter the lunar orbit On Monday, the teams are now preparing for a landing test near the moon of South Pole on Thursday (March 6).
This is not the only private spaceship that is preparing to land on the moon. Ispace of Tokyo based Resistance Lander, who was launched on the same rocket as Blue Ghost, is currently alone, extended path to the moon and in the eye at the end of May or early June.
