{"id":209340,"date":"2025-03-21T02:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/blue-ghost-lander-captures-stunning-sunset-shots-on-the-moon-before-falling-silent"},"modified":"2025-03-21T02:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:13:22","slug":"blue-ghost-lander-captures-stunning-sunset-shots-on-the-moon-before-falling-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/blue-ghost-lander-captures-stunning-sunset-shots-on-the-moon-before-falling-silent","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ghost lander captures stunning sunset shots on the moon before falling silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-ghost-lander-captures-stunning-sunset-shots-on-the-moon-before-falling-silent2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-03-private-lunar-lander-blue-ghost-1.html\">private lunar lander<\/a> has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the stunning photos Tuesday, taken before the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-03-private-lunar-lander-blue-ghost.html\">Blue Ghost lander<\/a> fell silent over the weekend. One shot included Venus in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost landed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/moon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">moon<\/a> on March 2, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-01-private-spacecraft-moon-captures-glorious.html\">first private spacecraft<\/a> to touch down upright and perform its entire mission. It kept taking pictures and collecting science data five hours into the lunar night before it died for lack of solar energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the stunning photos Tuesday, taken before the Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend. One shot included Venus in the distance. Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost landed on the moon on March 2, the first private spacecraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}