The Blue Ghost’s lunar lander has captured a sunrise on the moon and other stunning images after its successful touchdown on the lunar surface early on Sunday morning (Mar. 2).
Blue Ghost landed in an enormous basin in the northeastern part of the moon’s near-side at 3:34 a.m. EST, NASA announced in a statement. The space agency is working with commercial space exploration company Firefly Aerospace, which is leading the mission, to learn more about the moon and test new technologies on the lunar surface for future space exploration. Blue Ghost is only the second private lunar lander ever to park on the moon, after Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus craft touched down in Feb. 2024.
After Blue Ghost’s successful landing, Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim said in a statement that Firefly was “literally and figuratively over the Moon.” Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the moon, or “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” is the first of Firefly’s three planned missions to our nearest celestial neighbor that will run until 2028.
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