See Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander bathed in purple...

The lunar eclipse this week had many people gazing up on the evening sky to marvel on the red-tinged moon, and now we are able to 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 purple mild forged over Blue Ghost as Earth quickly blocked the solar. The brand new imagery got here in shortly after the crew shared a photograph of because the solar started to reemerge.

“These pictures — quickly captured by our prime deck digicam with completely different publicity settings — had been stitched collectively in a fast clip,” Firefly stated. “The purple hue is the results of daylight refracting by means of 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 photographs are higher lit, you possibly can see Venus as a small dot above the eclipse. And in the event you look actually, actually carefully, you’ll additionally see Mercury to its left.

Blue Ghost landed on the moon on March 2, and Firefly has shared some fairly wonderful photographs and movies since, together with . The lander’s mission is anticipated to come back to an finish quickly with the onset of lunar evening, nevertheless it’ll first observe the lunar sundown on March 16.