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We find ourselves in this curious world of commercial payloads now. Hands up if you know what commercial payloads were on Firefly's impressive mission early this year. The NASA science instruments got lots of press but Blue Ghost 1 carried more than that...
https://twitter.com/Adi_OFCL/status/1899881997830406271
Who knew Shiba Inus ate pizza? If I were Firefly I would probably keep quiet about this too. There were other things like this but a full list will probably never be available.
#moon #BGM1 #CLPS -
We find ourselves in this curious world of commercial payloads now. Hands up if you know what commercial payloads were on Firefly's impressive mission early this year. The NASA science instruments got lots of press but Blue Ghost 1 carried more than that...
https://twitter.com/Adi_OFCL/status/1899881997830406271
Who knew Shiba Inus ate pizza? If I were Firefly I would probably keep quiet about this too. There were other things like this but a full list will probably never be available.
#moon #BGM1 #CLPS -
Finally, views looking west very close to sunset. The sun is on the horizon, Earth above it in the top view, with some neighbours peeking into the shot. The light seems to be shining from the wrong direction in the foreground - it is sunlight reflected off Mons Latreille enough to weakly illuminate the surface. An inset (B) shows Earth in eclipse with a nice diamond ring effect. Solar eclipse on the Moon, lunar eclipse on Earth.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
Finally, views looking west very close to sunset. The sun is on the horizon, Earth above it in the top view, with some neighbours peeking into the shot. The light seems to be shining from the wrong direction in the foreground - it is sunlight reflected off Mons Latreille enough to weakly illuminate the surface. An inset (B) shows Earth in eclipse with a nice diamond ring effect. Solar eclipse on the Moon, lunar eclipse on Earth.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
These two views look east, the first just after sunrise, the second near sunset. The volcanic cone Mons Latreille is shown in the lower one and would be visible in the top one except we are looking at its shadowed side and sun glare gets in the way a bit. As far as I know we did not get to see the rest of the hill.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
These two views look east, the first just after sunrise, the second near sunset. The volcanic cone Mons Latreille is shown in the lower one and would be visible in the top one except we are looking at its shadowed side and sun glare gets in the way a bit. As far as I know we did not get to see the rest of the hill.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
I will finish Firefly's mission with some surface views. These images were taken looking west. The top image was taken just after landing at sunrise with the rising sun casting a long shadow to the west. The lower image was taken later with a higher sun. The wide angle lens makes the very flat horizon look curved. Sunlight reflected off the nearby crater wall made the lander hotter than expected so they took a siesta around local noon.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
I will finish Firefly's mission with some surface views. These images were taken looking west. The top image was taken just after landing at sunrise with the rising sun casting a long shadow to the west. The lower image was taken later with a higher sun. The wide angle lens makes the very flat horizon look curved. Sunlight reflected off the nearby crater wall made the lander hotter than expected so they took a siesta around local noon.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
SCALPSS is an experiment from NASA Langley. There were 6 cameras on BGM1 (and 4 on IM-1, 4 more on the Blue Moon Mk1 pathfinder lander coming up soon). They look for surface effects of the rocket plume, which will matter when we have successive landings at places where infrastructure is being assembled - such as Artemis Base Camp. Later images show lots of raised dust, but earlier ones should give me what I need for mapping.
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SCALPSS is an experiment from NASA Langley. There were 6 cameras on BGM1 (and 4 on IM-1, 4 more on the Blue Moon Mk1 pathfinder lander coming up soon). They look for surface effects of the rocket plume, which will matter when we have successive landings at places where infrastructure is being assembled - such as Artemis Base Camp. Later images show lots of raised dust, but earlier ones should give me what I need for mapping.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
I really want to have two more maps for Firefly's BGM1 mission: an improved version of what I am showing here and a further enlargement showing the space under the lander, locating the drill, Planetvac and other experiment locations, the surface changes created by the landing etc. They have to wait for future publications or presentations. This is a quick version of a map made from SCALPSS (Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies) images as released so far.
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I really want to have two more maps for Firefly's BGM1 mission: an improved version of what I am showing here and a further enlargement showing the space under the lander, locating the drill, Planetvac and other experiment locations, the surface changes created by the landing etc. They have to wait for future publications or presentations. This is a quick version of a map made from SCALPSS (Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies) images as released so far.
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Planetvac ejected a rock - and yes, it was named Dwayne. Not sure why... The SCALPSS image under the lander shows the LISTER drill hole, and beside it a pit with coarser material in the middle... I have labelled it as caused by the Planetvac sampling but it could be from the landing thrusters. Any ideas? I'm waiting for papers on the SCALPSS and Planetvac experiments which I hope will fill in a lot of details.
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Planetvac ejected a rock - and yes, it was named Dwayne. Not sure why... The SCALPSS image under the lander shows the LISTER drill hole, and beside it a pit with coarser material in the middle... I have labelled it as caused by the Planetvac sampling but it could be from the landing thrusters. Any ideas? I'm waiting for papers on the SCALPSS and Planetvac experiments which I hope will fill in a lot of details.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
Firefly landed successfully and operated flawlessly (as far as I can tell), as I am sure you all know. Here is the Firefly web page for the mission:
https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/
and here is their image and video site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/72177720313239766/
It's nice to look back at the landing video and others here. We have had some failed and partially successful landings in recent years - let's hope for more successes in future.
Here is a quick 'storyboard' summary image.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
Firefly landed successfully and operated flawlessly (as far as I can tell), as I am sure you all know. Here is the Firefly web page for the mission:
https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/
and here is their image and video site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/72177720313239766/
It's nice to look back at the landing video and others here. We have had some failed and partially successful landings in recent years - let's hope for more successes in future.
Here is a quick 'storyboard' summary image.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
Two more maps take us down to the BGM1 lander. The top image is from LRO, the bottom one is made of spacecraft descent images, using the LRO image as a base to get the geometry right. In the top image the lander and its shadow are visible. In the lower map the lander is drawn in with its LMS (Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder) array around it. Four projectiles were fired by springs out to about 20 m from the lander, trailing wires which form antennae for the experiment.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
Two more maps take us down to the BGM1 lander. The top image is from LRO, the bottom one is made of spacecraft descent images, using the LRO image as a base to get the geometry right. In the top image the lander and its shadow are visible. In the lower map the lander is drawn in with its LMS (Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder) array around it. Four projectiles were fired by springs out to about 20 m from the lander, trailing wires which form antennae for the experiment.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
Here is one of my trademark zoom-in sets of images to help locate the Firefly BGM1 landing site. It's quite close to and northwest of a small breached volcanic cone called Mons Latreille. The cone is visible from the landing site but we didn't get a full panorama from the lander (or haven't seen one yet) so we only have a partial view of it. The lower right image shows the descent track meandering up from the south.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
Here is one of my trademark zoom-in sets of images to help locate the Firefly BGM1 landing site. It's quite close to and northwest of a small breached volcanic cone called Mons Latreille. The cone is visible from the landing site but we didn't get a full panorama from the lander (or haven't seen one yet) so we only have a partial view of it. The lower right image shows the descent track meandering up from the south.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
What we saw yesterday might be called the official site selection process for Firefly's first lander. But there's more to the story. Often people outside the mission offer suggestions as well, and here we see work by Mélissa Martinot and colleagues looking at alternatives. The work was presented at the European Lunar Symposium in Dumfries, Scotland, in June 2024. The top map here shows the region with 7 suggested sites, with more detail below.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
What we saw yesterday might be called the official site selection process for Firefly's first lander. But there's more to the story. Often people outside the mission offer suggestions as well, and here we see work by Mélissa Martinot and colleagues looking at alternatives. The work was presented at the European Lunar Symposium in Dumfries, Scotland, in June 2024. The top map here shows the region with 7 suggested sites, with more detail below.
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
This map starts with 2 sites in Mare Crisium (map A). B and C show the 2 sites. In D several possible locations near the small volcanic hill Mons Latreille are shown, with further details in E, F and G. The site shown in G was chosen for the landing. This site had to be relatively smooth with few rocks, and not in a magnetic anomaly with a stronger magnetic field to suit one of the instruments.
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This map starts with 2 sites in Mare Crisium (map A). B and C show the 2 sites. In D several possible locations near the small volcanic hill Mons Latreille are shown, with further details in E, F and G. The site shown in G was chosen for the landing. This site had to be relatively smooth with few rocks, and not in a magnetic anomaly with a stronger magnetic field to suit one of the instruments.
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... The Firefly lander originated as the lander called Beresheet or Genesis, flown by the Israeli company SpaceIL in 2019. It crashed. Firefly modified the design and built it in the US to ensure it was eligible for NASA funding. OK, we have a lander - now, where is it going to land?
This CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) mission grew out of studies for a lunar geophysical network which wanted one node in Mare Crisium.
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... The Firefly lander originated as the lander called Beresheet or Genesis, flown by the Israeli company SpaceIL in 2019. It crashed. Firefly modified the design and built it in the US to ensure it was eligible for NASA funding. OK, we have a lander - now, where is it going to land?
This CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) mission grew out of studies for a lunar geophysical network which wanted one node in Mare Crisium.
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I am compiling a history of lunar exploration which organizes missions by launch date. For the first time my scheme ran into difficulty his year when Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 2 were launched on the same Falcon 9. I will look at the Firefly mission first and the ispace mission next as they reached the Moon in that order.
Firefly Aerospace's lander 'Blue Ghost' takes its name from a kind of firefly...
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
I am compiling a history of lunar exploration which organizes missions by launch date. For the first time my scheme ran into difficulty his year when Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 2 were launched on the same Falcon 9. I will look at the Firefly mission first and the ispace mission next as they reached the Moon in that order.
Firefly Aerospace's lander 'Blue Ghost' takes its name from a kind of firefly...
#moon #CLPS #firefly #BGM1 -
A Lunar Sunset Video capturing the horizon glow. The NASA science team is excited to analyze these images further and share more on the findings soon!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qSJJfR -
A Lunar Sunset Video capturing the horizon glow. The NASA science team is excited to analyze these images further and share more on the findings soon!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qSJJfR -
Sunset on the Moon captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. With Earth and Venus on top of that!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qSHJA7 -
Sunset on the Moon captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. With Earth and Venus on top of that!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
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NASA and Firefly Blue Ghost Lunar Mission Wrap Up Briefing
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasa-and-firefly-final-update-on-blue-ghost-moon-mission/
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NASA and Firefly Blue Ghost Lunar Mission Wrap Up Briefing
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasa-and-firefly-final-update-on-blue-ghost-moon-mission/
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Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode.
Goodnight friends.Blue Ghost’s final message as it signs off from the Moon
#BlueGhost #FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode.
Goodnight friends.Blue Ghost’s final message as it signs off from the Moon
#BlueGhost #FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander at sunset with a crescent Earth on the horizon.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qSvk6A#FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #Sunset #ShadowSelfie #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander at sunset with a crescent Earth on the horizon.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qSvk6A#FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #Sunset #ShadowSelfie #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Sunset Shadow
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander captures photo of its shadow on the Moon with the volcanic feature, Mons Latreille, visible on the top right side of the lunar surface.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qSwh2d#FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #Sunset #ShadowSelfie #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Sunset Shadow
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander captures photo of its shadow on the Moon with the volcanic feature, Mons Latreille, visible on the top right side of the lunar surface.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qSwh2d#FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #Sunset #ShadowSelfie #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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High resolution image of the eclipse seen from the Moon by #BlueGhost. You can also spot Mercury (left) and Venus (right) just above the eclipse! This is amazing!!!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qRZAU#FireflyAerospace #Venus #Mercury #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #SolarEclipse #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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High resolution image of the eclipse seen from the Moon by #BlueGhost. You can also spot Mercury (left) and Venus (right) just above the eclipse! This is amazing!!!
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qRZAU#FireflyAerospace #Venus #Mercury #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #SolarEclipse #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Out of this world footage captured from the Moon by the #BlueGhost lander during the solar eclipse.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qRZAUk#FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #SolarEclipse #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Out of this world footage captured from the Moon by the #BlueGhost lander during the solar eclipse.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qRZAUk#FireflyAerospace #BGM1 #Moon #Earth #SolarEclipse #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Whoah
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qRVJkp#BGM1 #Moon #Earth #SolarEclipse #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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Whoah
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qRVJkp#BGM1 #Moon #Earth #SolarEclipse #science #STEM #space #news #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage. The Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 instrument took the images during the descent and successful soft landing.
Credit: NASA/Olivia Tyrrell
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-cameras-on-blue-ghost-capture-first-of-its-kind-moon-landing-footage #BGM1 -
NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage. The Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 instrument took the images during the descent and successful soft landing.
Credit: NASA/Olivia Tyrrell
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-cameras-on-blue-ghost-capture-first-of-its-kind-moon-landing-footage #BGM1 -
Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost captured the Earth from the lunar surface with a wide-lens cameras on its top deck.
Captured: Mar. 3, 2025; released: March 13
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qREVB1 #BGM1 -
Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost captured the Earth from the lunar surface with a wide-lens cameras on its top deck.
Captured: Mar. 3, 2025; released: March 13
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qREVB1 #BGM1 -
🛰️🌑 Après un alunissage réussi le 2 mars, les opérations de surface de #BGM1 ont rapidement commencé sur la #Lune.
Images et détails : https://reves-d-espace.com/les-images-atterrissage-et-premiers-jours-operations-de-blue-ghost-mission-1-sur-la-lune/
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🛰️🌑 Après un alunissage réussi le 2 mars, les opérations de surface de #BGM1 ont rapidement commencé sur la #Lune.
Images et détails : https://reves-d-espace.com/les-images-atterrissage-et-premiers-jours-operations-de-blue-ghost-mission-1-sur-la-lune/
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LISTER Drill Surface Operations. NASA's instrument for subsurface thermal exploration began drilling into the surface shortly after landing to determine the heat flow from the interior of the Moon.
Released Mar. 10, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qRfAfo#BGM1 #space #firefly #LISTER #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon #geology
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LISTER Drill Surface Operations. NASA's instrument for subsurface thermal exploration began drilling into the surface shortly after landing to determine the heat flow from the interior of the Moon.
Released Mar. 10, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qRfAfo#BGM1 #space #firefly #LISTER #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon #geology
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Deployment of the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) electrodes to the surface and a 8-foot mast above the top deck. LMS will be used to characterize the structure and composition of the Moon’s mantle.
Mar. 7, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qQzm68#BGM1 #space #firefly #LMS #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon #geology
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Deployment of the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) electrodes to the surface and a 8-foot mast above the top deck. LMS will be used to characterize the structure and composition of the Moon’s mantle.
Mar. 7, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qQzm68#BGM1 #space #firefly #LMS #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon #geology
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#BlueGhost Lunar Surface Shadow Selfie
Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost's captured another shadow selfie showing the deployed X-band antenna (left) and LEXI payload (right) on the top deck.
Mar. 7, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qQBz4r#BGM1 #space #firefly #PlanetVac #regolith #LunarRegolith #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon
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#BlueGhost Lunar Surface Shadow Selfie
Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost's captured another shadow selfie showing the deployed X-band antenna (left) and LEXI payload (right) on the top deck.
Mar. 7, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qQBz4r#BGM1 #space #firefly #PlanetVac #regolith #LunarRegolith #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon
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One of Blue Ghost's 10 NASA Payloads, Lunar PlanetVac successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil from the Moon using pressurized nitrogen gas.
Mar. 6, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qQkj7S#BGM1 #space #firefly #PlanetVac #regolith #LunarRegolith #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon
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One of Blue Ghost's 10 NASA Payloads, Lunar PlanetVac successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil from the Moon using pressurized nitrogen gas.
Mar. 6, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
📷 https://flic.kr/p/2qQkj7S#BGM1 #space #firefly #PlanetVac #regolith #LunarRegolith #news #science #STEM #Moon #MoonLanding #Astrodon