Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander’s first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerge from its Mare Crisium landing site on March 14 at 5:30 AM UTC. (Credit: Firefly Aerospace) After recently ...

Dig deeper: Blue Ghost’s photos, while remarkable, aren’t the first such images of an eclipse from the moon. NASA’s Surveyor 3 lunar probe managed to capture the first-ever view of a solar ...

As 2025 approaches, skywatchers worldwide are preparing for a celestial event of breathtaking beauty: a total lunar eclipse ...

Blue Ghost's first look of the eclipse came at about 1:30 a.m. EST Friday from the spacecraft's landing site in Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide basin on the near side of the moon believed to have ...

From Blue Ghost's lunar perspective, however, the eclipse happened "backward," with Earth blocking the lander's view of the Sun. Firefly published the below photograph of totality in reverse on ...

“Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander had the rare opportunity to operate on the Moon and capture the first (high-definition) imagery of a total solar eclipse on March 14,” Will Coogan, Blue ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, which has been on the moon since the spacecraft’s successful touchdown on March 2, captured images of the sun, Earth and moon lined up at around 4:30 a.m. ET, the ...

Siblings Angela and Samuel Tsubera watch a "super blue blood" moon eclipse over the Cosumnes River Preserve near Thornton in the early morning hours of Jan. 31, 2018.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, which has been on the moon since the spacecraft’s successful touchdown on March 2, captured images of the sun, Earth and moon lined up at around 4:30 a.m. ET, the ...