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.
It entered the Moon's orbit earlier this month, capturing footage of the dark side from 120 km above ... lunar subsurface drilling and dust mitigation.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is positioned directly between the moon and sun, blocking the sun's rays from the ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just beamed home up-close video of its epic March 2 touchdown, showing how its thrusters kicked up plumes of lunar dust. Intuitive Machines' Athena ...
Now, three astrophysicists have proposed a plan to create a moon dust shield by mining and shooting bits of moon dust into space. The plan might sound a bit out of this world — sorry for that ...
The UD experiment is part of the Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) payload set to determine how moon dust particles stick to different materials exposed to the moon’s environment. These ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...
As the sun set on the Blue Ghost Moon lander, bringing a successful 14-day mission to a close, the robot captured a view only ...