The privately-owned Blue Ghost moon lander, built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace, has captured rare views of a lunar eclipse from the moon’s surface.
The lander, which touched down March 2 in a volcanic plain on the moon’s nearside, has spent its time deploying instruments and collecting data. On the night of March 13, as Earth’s shadow covered the moon in a total lunar eclipse, Blue Ghost turned its cameras back toward Earth.
Around 4:30 a.m. EDT, the lander captured the “diamond ring effect,” as a single point of sunlight emerged from behind our planet at the end of totality. Earth itself, appearing as a dark disk in