{"id":188218,"date":"2025-03-19T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=61064928ec0d9fcd5e7356e70fd3b5df"},"modified":"2025-03-19T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:00:24","slug":"goodnight-moon-nasa-cameras-on-blue-ghost-capture-lunar-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188218","title":{"rendered":"Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon\u2019s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. The bright, swirly light moving across the surface on the top right of the image is sunlight reflecting off the lander. Images taken by SCALPSS 1.1 during Blue Ghost\u2019s descent and landing, as well as images from the surface during the long lunar day, will help researchers better understand the effects of a lander\u2019s engine plumes on the lunar soil, or regolith. The instrument collected almost 9000 images and returned 10 GB of data. This data is important as trips to the Moon increase and the number of payloads touching down in proximity to one another grows. The SCALPSS 1.1 project is funded by the Space Technology Mission Directorate\u2019s Game Changing Development program. SCALPSS was developed at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, with support from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/div>\n
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This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon\u2019s surface for a little more than …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15942,15611,15622,15624,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-changing-development-program","category-langley-research-center","category-nasa-centers-facilities","category-space-technology-mission-directorate","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t