Planning to watch Thursday’s total eclipse of the moon? A robotic lander may be looking back
The spacecraft, called Blue Ghost, was built by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace. Launched on Jan. 15, it made a remarkably crisis-free landing in Mare Crisium on March 2. Since then it has been busy operating 10 NASA science experiments and sending back data as fast as possible before the sun sets on the solar-powered lander on Sunday.
From fiery 'blood moons' to ancient legends, discover the surprising science and history behind lunar eclipses.
To begin, the moon will enter the Earth’s penumbra, or the outer part of that shadow. There’ll be a subtle dimming effect; I ...
Comcast and MIT Media Lab bring live footage and never-before seen 3D photos from MIT’s historic lunar mission to viewers ...
There’s a chance that clouds could obscure the view from Northland of a rare “blood moon” lunar eclipse on Friday night, but ...
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