The lunar eclipse this week had many people gazing up on the night time sky to marvel on the red-tinged moon, and now we are able to see what that eerie impact appeared like from the opposite facet thanks to photographs captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander. From the lander’s perspective on the moon, the phenomenon on March 14 was a photo voltaic eclipse, and the most recent video exhibits crimson mild forged over Blue Ghost as Earth briefly blocked the solar. The brand new imagery got here in shortly after the workforce shared a photograph of because the solar started to reemerge.
“These photographs — quickly captured by our prime deck digicam with completely different publicity settings — have been stitched collectively in a fast clip,” Firefly stated. “The crimson hue is the results of daylight refracting by means of the Earth’s environment because the solar is blocked by our planet, casting a shadow on the lunar floor.” Initially of the video the place the photographs are higher lit, you possibly can see Venus as a small dot above the eclipse. And for those who look actually, actually carefully, you’ll additionally see Mercury to its left.
Blue Ghost landed on the moon on March 2, and Firefly has shared some fairly superb images and movies since, together with . The lander’s mission is anticipated to return to an finish quickly with the onset of lunar night time, nevertheless it’ll first observe the lunar sundown on March 16.