The lander watched our star's descent and disappearance over the cratered horizon ... set down softly in the Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") region of the moon's near side, becoming just the ...
At 2:26 a.m. on Friday, the moon enters into the total eclipse − known as totality. At this point, the only light from the Sun reaching the moon are red wavelengths, turning the moon a blood-red. This ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander may have only just touched down on the moon, but it's already beaming ... Blue Ghost touched down in Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crises), after deftly performing ...
Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 percent—6-for-11—and two of the successful landers either tipped over or ...
The mission was supposed to last 10 days until the darkness of lunar night fell over that part of the moon. The mission was part of a NASA program known as Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...
The project has since boosted that figure to over 25 percent ... surface of the Moon, or a neighbourhood half-way around the ...