It may be one of the most beautiful images that the world of astronautics has given us in recent years, I think so far this century, if the StarShip rocket trapped by the launch tower was something epic, the one above is beautiful and romantic.
It is the landing of the Blue Ghost on March 2, with the FireFly airspace company's Probe that landed in the sea of crises on the moon, becoming the first commercial company to successfully land on the moon, you have on Earth our planet, all the humans that have existed and exist are there on that pale blue dot.
I also love the colors, it shows that the quality of the cameras for this type of shots is improving every time, they are not easy to take, but the colors in this case are bright and with clarity, the Chinese Probe also had a good image but I think this is what beats it in quality.
This ship is a cargo ship, it is the first of many that will come later as part of NASA's commercial lunar cargo services initiative to strengthen the Artemis program to conquer the moon, the Artemis program led by NASA is an international program that also includes, for example, Europe and Japan and aims to take Humans to the moon, its first objective is to take the first woman and the first man of color to the moon and create a permanent base on the surface of the moon, but for this you need to have a line of equipment supplies and merchandise to be able to supply that lunar base.
It has been a long time since a landing on the moon was achieved with such quality, this ship carried 10 NASA instruments and there is one very important thing, it landed 100 meters from its target which is quite good, it is one of the things that is not easy about landing on the moon and of course if you have a lunar base and your transport of goods, food and supplies turns out that it does not land near you but several kilometers away you can have it annoying, however, they have achieved a fairly precise landing 100 meters away. Your goal is very good.
Blue Ghost is now going to begin its surface operations, supporting various scientific activities for the next 14 Earth days, those 14 Earth days are equivalent to the illuminated part of a lunar day, the full day on the moon lasts 29 and a half Earth days, surface operations include lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, x-ray imaging and dust mitigation experiments.
On March 14 the Probe hopes to capture high-definition images of a total eclipse when the Earth blocks the sun above the moon's horizon and on March 16 the Blue Ghost will capture the lunar sunset providing data on how lunar dust levitates due to the influences of the Sun, the solar wind and solar radiation, creating a rather strange glow, it was documented.
for the first time Eugene Cernan on Apollo 17 and we want to know what influence and how that kind of dusty haze that occurs at dusk on the moon works and how it works.
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It really is a great image. Looking forward to seeing the result of some of these experiments, especially EDS.
Here's a list of all the experiments onboard: