{"id":13683,"date":"2025-03-18T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T20:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13683"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:32:17","slug":"the-blue-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/18\/the-blue-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/the-universe\/moon\/sunrise-on-the-moon-private-blue-ghost-lander-captures-amazing-shot-after-historic-lunar-touchdown-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from SPACE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunrise on the moon! Private Blue Ghost lander captures amazing shot after historic lunar touchdown (photo)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/author\/andrew-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrew Jones<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/GkKN5ywi4ht3yincVVrcMZ-1200-80.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the brilliantly bright sun rising over the moon&#039;s cratered gray surface as seen by a lunar lander\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Sunrise on the moon, as seen by Firefly Aerospace&#8217;s Blue Ghost lunar lander. Firefly posted this photo on X on March 3, 2025.\u00a0(Image credit: Firefly Aerospace)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefly Aerospace&#8217;s Blue Ghost lander has captured a gorgeous shot of sunrise on the moon as it begins its workday on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Ghost\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/the-universe\/moon\/were-on-the-moon-private-blue-ghost-moon-lander-aces-historic-lunar-landing-for-nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>aced its lunar landing<\/u><\/a>\u00a0attempt on Sunday (March 2), setting down close to Mons Latreille, a solitary lunar peak in the vast basin Mare Crisium (&#8220;Sea of Crises&#8221;) in the northeastern region of the moon&#8217;s near side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the spacecraft is already getting to work, starting up its science payloads and capturing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/missions\/earth-shines-over-moon-in-amazing-1st-photos-from-private-blue-ghost-lander-were-all-in-that-picture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>amazing images<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of its surroundings and the distant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Earth<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/the-universe\/moon\/sunrise-on-the-moon-private-blue-ghost-lander-captures-amazing-shot-after-historic-lunar-touchdown-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at SPACE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SPACE Sunrise on the moon! Private Blue Ghost lander captures amazing shot after historic lunar touchdown (photo) By\u00a0Andrew Jones Firefly Aerospace&#8217;s Blue Ghost lander has captured a gorgeous shot of sunrise on the moon as it begins its workday on the lunar surface. Blue Ghost\u00a0aced its lunar landing\u00a0attempt on Sunday (March 2), setting down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}