Lunar Lander Captures First High-Definition Video of a Sunset on the Moon
Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes of data back to Earth. This was the longest commercial mission on the Moon to date, and the first of a series of landers designed to touch down on the lunar surface on a yearly basis.
As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the first high-definition images of a lunar sunset.
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Firefly Aerospace, a private space company, said it just completed the longest commercial operation on the Moon to date ...
But since the full moon was running high along this stretch of the ecliptic, sunset and moonrise were visible at once. As you watched the moon rise, the sun illuminated your back. The Chacoans ...
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