NASA Orbiter Captures Stunning View of Blue Ghost Lander on the Moon

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to capture a photo of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the surface of the Moon, in a stunning instance of the orbiter’s surveillance power. Ghosts are notoriously hard to photograph, and this (very real) commercial spacecraft is no different. Blue Ghost landed on the Moon early Sunday morning, finishing a 45-day journey to our rocky satellite. The lander touched down in Mare Crisium (which literally translates to “Sea of Crises”), a crater formed by an ancient asteroid impact on the Moon. Remarkable landing footage from Blue Ghost itself was revealed yesterday, showing the lunar surface in sharp relief. LRO took the image when it was roughly 109 miles (175 kilometers) east of the Blue Ghost landing site; the image was taken with the orbiter’s Narrow Angle Cameras on March 2, 2025. If you were expecting a high-res image of the lander you may be in for a disappointment. The NASA LRO image was taken from lunar orbit, so it’s hard to s ... Read full article.