Solar Eclipse Captured from the Moon
First Image from Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Lander Released
Blue Ghost caught her first look at the solar eclipse from the Moon around 12:30 am CDT.
In this image released by Firefly Aerospace, you can see the glowing ring of light emerge in the reflection of Blue Ghost's solar panel as Earth began to block the sun.
This photo, taken from the lander’s top deck also shows the X-band antenna (left), the Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (center), and the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder mast (right).
Firefly Aerospace says it plans to downlink more imagery soon once the X-band antenna warms up from the cold temperatures faced in the darkness of totality.