Blue Ghost watches a total solar eclipse from the Moon's surface, with Earth blocking the Sun

Firefly Aerospace/Blue Ghost

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander photographed a total eclipse from the Moon's surface on March 14, with Earth passing in front of the Sun. Twelve days after landing in Mare Crisium, all 10 NASA instruments powered on and returned data, including subsurface thermal readings to 1 meter, X-ray images of Earth's magnetosphere, and GPS signals received at the Moon.

• Eclipse photograph: Earth blocking Sun; taken March 14, twelve days after March 2 landing.
• All 10 NASA instruments operational: subsurface heat (1 m depth), Earth X-ray imaging, GPS lunar navigation, and more.
• LuGRE: first GPS navigation solution on the Moon; LEXI: X-ray solar wind interactions; LISTER: 1 m depth thermal probe.
• Scientific datasets include laser ranging, interior structure sensing (700 miles deep), 3,000+ descent/landing images.