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AkaSci 🛰️

The moon as seen from earth today.

It is early lunar morning at the Firefly Blue Ghost landing site, located at the edge of the lunar day/night line, with the Sun low on the horizon.

We can correlate this with the pic above with Blue Ghost's shadow and earth in the distance. The Sun is behind the lander and the light on the lunar surface is Sunshine not Earthshine.

moon.nasa.gov/moon-observation
Credit: NASA
#Firefly #BlueGhost
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AkaSci 🛰️

The long shadow in the image above is due to the low Sun elevation at the present time at the landing site.

Here is a graph of the Sun elevation angle at the landing site of the Firefly Blue Ghost lander, near Mons Latreille, a volcanic feature in Mare Crisium.

Like other missions that use solar panels for power, Blue Ghost has a 14 earth-day period to perform operations before the cold lunar night destroys most electronics.

#Firefly #BlueGhost
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Graph of the Sun elevation angle at the landing site of the Firefly Blue Ghost lander, near Mons Latreille, a volcanic feature in Mare Crisium.
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AkaSci 🛰️

Two images from the lunar surface proudly posted by the Firefly team.

1. Pic with Blue Ghost’s shadow seen on the Moon’s surface with Earth on the horizon. Blue Ghost is probably perched on a mound.

2. Pic of the Moon's surface with Earth on the horizon. Blue Ghost's solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) are also in view.

P.S. The lander is named after the firefly Phausis reticulata known as the Blue Ghost.

Source: flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace
#Firefly #BlueGhost
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1. Pic with Blue Ghost’s shadow seen on the Moon’s surface. 2. Pic of the Moon's surface and Earth on the horizon. Blue Ghost's solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) are also in view.
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#FireflyAerospace:
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March 2, 2025, 2:34 am CST: Successful Touchdown Confirmed

We have confirmation Blue Ghost stuck the landing! Firefly just became the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing. .."

fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gho

2.3.2025

Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost Mission 1: Live UpdatesFrom liftoff to landing, Firefly is providing live updates on its first mission to the Moon carrying 10 NASA instruments.
#BlueGhost#BlueGhostM1#Firefly
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Linknation

#MÜN OR BUST! X-D #KerbalSpaceProgram in #RealLife! X-D
(yes it really looks like game graphics... but it is said to be actual #NASA footage of #FireFly blue-ghost-mission-1 #lander)

the actual footage is much crisper hat to reduce #filesize massively because #videos on #mastodon are very slow at loading :(

fireflyspace.com/missions/blue

watch #live #landing in aprox 2 days stay tuned! youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY

Moon is so close, we can taste it! New footage from Firefly Aerospace shows their #lunar lander's view from 60 miles (100 km) above the #Moon (#MÜN!) Blue Ghost will land at Mare Crisium, on the near side of the Moon, on March 2, no earlier than 3:34am ET (0834 UTC).

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Felyashono

New instance, new introduction!
I'm a late (mostly self) diagnosed autistic in recovery from autistic burnout. In spring 2024 I left a career at Apple Retail and have been finding myself since. I'm deeply passionate about and experienced with Apple tech. I also love Sci-Fi and Fantasy, mostly TV and movies these days. I'm a gamer, mostly playing on Mac, iPad, and Switch. I was once a software engineer and still pursue it as a hobby, mostly developing small projects for the Apple ecosystem in Swift.

#Introduction#ActuallyAutistic#Apple
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systemShock

I'm in the middle of Becky Chambers' "the long way to a small angry planet", and the whole book is those parts of Firefly in which the crew seems like a happy family, full of love for eachother. I have been needing this book in my life for so long now. It's quickly becoming one of my happy places.

#books#reading#scifi
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