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Last night's Lunar Eclipse as seen from the Moon! [1]
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Date: 2025-03-14
On this day of disappointments and exhausting frustrations (more at the trump regime that Democrats), here is something to cheer about and take solace in. While we were watching the 'Blood moon' lunar eclipse last night, the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander had its camera turned at earth to capture a solar eclipse on the moon!
The eclipse at Firefly’s landing site lasted ~5 hours starting at 0500 UTC with ~2 hours of totality, starting at 0618 UTC. Today, they posted 2 images and a time-lapse video of the event — capturing what is know as a “Diamond Ring” as the sun slid behind a much larger Earth, creating a thin ring of light, also referred to as the sum of all sunrises and sunsets on earth!
The Diamond Ring!
The time-lapse video. Note that Blue Ghost uses a camera with a fixed wide angle lens, hence the image of earth is relatively small.
This is not the first time a solar eclipse has been photographed from a spacecraft or lunar lander. Here are 3 others —
1. NASA Surveyor 3 lunar lander, April 24, 1967
2. NASA Apollo 12 spacecraft, returning to Earth, Nov 1969
3. JAXA KAGUYA (SELENE) Lunar orbiter, Feb 10, 2009
4. Firefly Blue Ghost lunar lander, March 14, 2025
Here is a dramatic video of the solar eclipse taken by the JAXA/NHK KAGUYA (SELENE) lunar orbiter on February 10, 2009.
Now back to fighting Nazis.
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