Nassa She released the first high -resolution sunset on the moon, two cheerful pictures taken by the special blue ghost to combat Lander that can provide scientists other evidence on the mysterious phenomenon known as Glow Lunar Horizon Glow.
The agency presented the photos to a press conference on Tuesday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, which represents the conclusion of a 14 -day task that was held in partnership with Texas Firefly Aerospace.
Commercial landing, which He landed on March 2 Near Mons Latreille, a volcanic formation in Mare Crisium on the northeast of the moon, is part of an investment of $ 2.6 billion by NASA in the commercial load operators aimed at reducing costs and support for Artemis, which is scheduled to return humans to the moon in 2027.
The two pictures, which are taken to the West, with the Earth and Fernus as well, show the spread of the glow along the Moon horizon where the sun appears in the middle of the road.
“These are the first high -resolution images taken from the sun that decrease and then take darkness on the horizon,” said Joel Kerns, deputy director of NASA for exploration. The Science Mission Directorate.
“The pictures themselves are beautiful, they are really aesthetic, but I know that there is a group of people who look at them now after they have studied the moon … Now it’s time for specialists in this field to examine and compare it with other data that we have from the task and know the conclusions they can suggest and extract from.”
Lunar Horizon Glow was first documented by the astronaut Eugene Seranan, one of the last two men who prolonged the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The subsequent observations concluded that the phenomenon was caused by the small dust particles in the thin atmosphere of the glowing moon in the Sentust and Sansit, while some of this phenomenon indicates that some of the particles of particles.
Blue Ghost also took high -resolution images of the total eclipse on March 14, when the Earth prevented the sun from the moon’s horizon.
The Spacex Falcon Lander, which is the size of the hippopotamus, launched a 2.8 mile on January 15th. Blue Ghost was carrying a set of scientific experiments, including lunar soil analyst, a computer that bears radiation and a feasibility test use of the current global satellite navigation system for mobility in the moon.
“Firefly Aerospace is proud to achieve this is the first completely successful trade,” said Jasson Kim, CEO of the company.
“I really think the historical task of Firefly and Blue Ghost will be a new chapter in textbooks and become a beacon of what humanity can achieve.”
A separate task by a private company to land with a spacecraft carrying scientific equipment on the moon, which ended with failure earlier this month when it launched the Athens probe by intuitive machines to land and it was Declared a dead.
