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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander snapped an incredible pic of a solar eclipse from the Moon


Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander has taken a fantastic picture of a solar eclipse from the lunar surface. This image created the so-called diamond ring effect.

The lander snapped the photo at around 1:30AM ET on Friday morning, as the Earth slowly blocked a view of the Sun. Firefly released another image from the earlier part of the eclipse that shows the lander’s solar panel as the Sun starts to hide behind Earth’s shadow. Firefly says it will try to downlink more images from the eclipse once Blue Ghost’s X-band antenna has warmed up after being stuck in the cold throughout the event.

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