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 will see what that eerie impact appeared like from the opposite facet thanks to pictures 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 newest video exhibits crimson gentle solid over Blue Ghost as Earth quickly blocked the solar. The brand new imagery got here in shortly after the staff shared a photograph of because the solar started to reemerge.
“These photographs — quickly captured by our high deck digital camera with totally different publicity settings — had been stitched collectively in a fast clip,” Firefly mentioned. “The crimson hue is the results of daylight refracting via the Earth’s ambiance because the solar is blocked by our planet, casting a shadow on the lunar floor.” In the beginning of the video the place the pictures are higher lit, you possibly can see Venus as a small dot above the eclipse. And in case you look actually, actually intently, you’ll additionally see Mercury to its left.
Blue Ghost landed on the moon on March 2, and Firefly has shared some fairly superb pictures and movies since, together with . The lander’s mission is predicted to come back to an finish quickly with the onset of lunar night time, nevertheless it’ll first observe the lunar sundown on March 16.
