A moon-bound spacecraft snaps footage of Earth eclipsing the sun
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
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Blue Ghost moon lander sees Earth as a 'blue marble' from orbit (photo)
"Our GhostRiders captured the beauty of our home planet during another Earth orbit burn ... the surface of the moon for one lunar day, or about two Earth weeks. Then, the sun will set on the ...
How NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will make a looping voyage to the moon
Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon ... distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar ...
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Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...
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Say hello to the moon in stunning footage as Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit
Launched last month, the spacecraft will attempt the second ever soft landing on the moon by a commercial entity. Having spend several weeks in orbit around Earth ... showing the sun, the moon ...
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Watch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander witness an eclipse from space (video)
Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit ... Earth eclipsing the sun as seen from the perspective of the lander while en route to the moon.
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Firefly’s Lunar Lander Captures Haunting Earth Eclipse From Space
But rather than seeing the Moon wedge itself between us and the Sun, the lander viewed Earth briefly blocking the Sun’s light. Blue Ghost is set to orbit Earth for 25 days before performing an ...
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Remember the 'mini-moon' last year? Study finds it was likely just a chunk of the actual moon
Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...
‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is changing
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...