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Private lunar landing: How Blue Ghost measured the moon’s electric and magnetic fields

After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon’s Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist.

Kicking up dust and rocks, the Blue Ghost Mission-1’s March 2 moon landing marked the start of executing NASA-backed Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) instruments.

Blue Ghost lunar lander image taken of a solar eclipse from the moon on March 14, 2025 from Mare Crisium. The photo also shows Blue Ghost’s X-band antenna (left), the Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (center), and the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder mast (right). (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace)

The moon lander wrapped up more than 14 Earth days of surface operations (346 hours of daylight) and worked just over five hours into the super-chilly lunar night — checkmark accomplishments after performing the first fully successful commercial moon landing.

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