The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, as seen from the moon ...

The total lunar eclipse that unveiled a reddish blood moon overnight to nearly half of Earth looked a bit different from the vantage of our celestial neighbor. The Blue Ghost lunar lander ...

While parts of the Earth experienced a total lunar eclipse early Friday, a spacecraft on the moon captured the spectacle from a different perspective — a solar eclipse that appeared as a fiery ring in ...

The moon during a total lunar eclipse, seen from West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, January 21, 2019: The eclipse or ... forming off the coast. A "super blue blood" moon eclipse occurs over ...

The moon looks red during a lunar eclipse because of a process known as Rayleigh scattering. NASA explained this is the same process that causes the skies to turn blue and sunsets red.When ...

Lunar eclipses ... blue light are scattered outward, while longer wavelengths like red are bent — or refracted — into Earth's umbra, according to the Natural History Museum. When the moon ...

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Blue Ghost just sent back amazing photos of last night's "Blood Moon" total lunar eclipse from its perch in Mare Crisium, or "Sea of Crises," a vast basin on the northeastern region of the moon's ...

It is also a "blue" moon because it is the second full moon in the same month. The blood moon references a lunar eclipse which at its peak colors the moon orange/red. Lunar eclipses are often ...

The total lunar eclipse that unveiled a reddish blood moon overnight to nearly half of Earth looked a bit different from the vantage of our celestial neighbor. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by ...

“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 ...