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White to move and mate in two #635 - Blue Ghost lands on the moon [1]
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Date: 2025-03-04
The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander successfully landed on the moon Sunday morning. After the “11 minutes of terror” as the lander braked from 6,120 km/h to zero, it made a soft landing in the area near Mons Latreille, a volcanic feature in the eastern part of Mare Crisium, around 18.56°N, 61.81°E.
The lander is named after the firefly Phausis reticulata, aka as the Blue Ghost.
The lander now has 14 days to deploy and operate 10 NASA science payloads before the lunar night brings brutally cold temperatures and destroys most of the electronics.
Location of the Blue Ghost lander on the near side of the moon. Moon phase as of March 3, 2025.
Here are a couple of pics taken by the camera onboard the Blue Ghost lander.
The lander saw its shadow with the early morning sun behind it and Earth in the distant sky
Lunar Sunrise at the landing site Pics source: www.flickr.com/… Mission updates at fireflyspace.com/... Firefly Aerospace today released this fascinating footage of the landing of the Blue Ghost lander on the moon. Contains images taken by 3 different cameras. Nice touch on the video of the lander's shadow during its moments around touchdown. x x YouTube Video A gentle reminder that 55 years ago, we used to get images and videos like this from the surface of the moon. Using 1960’s technology 😄 Apollo 11 - Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin setting up an experiment on the lunar surface. Now let’s land today’s puzzle composed in 1952 by noted Hungarian chess player and composer József Szöghy (1910-1993). P.S.
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