Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2025 March 1
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                           Blue Ghost to the Moon
                     Image Credit: [3]Firefly Aerospace

   Explanation: With spacecraft thrusters at top center, the rugged
   surface of the Moon lies below the [4]Blue Ghost lander in this space
   age [5]video frame. The view of the lunar far side was captured by the
   Firefly Aerospace lunar lander on February 24, following a maneuver to
   circularize its orbit about 100 kilometers above the lunar surface. The
   robotic lunar lander is [6]scheduled to touch down [7]tomorrow, Sunday,
   March 2, at 3:34am Eastern Time in the [8]Mare Crisium impact basin on
   the lunar near side. In support of the [9]Artemis campaign, Blue Ghost
   is set to deliver science and technology experiments to the Moon, part
   of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. [10]Blue Ghost's
   mission on the surface is planned to operate during the lunar daylight
   hours at the landing site, about 14 Earth days.

                     Tomorrow's picture: light and sound
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    Authors & editors: [22]Robert Nemiroff ([23]MTU) & [24]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([25]UMCP)
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                         [31]NASA Science Activation
                           & [32]Michigan Tech. U.

References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2503/BlueGhost_lunar1067.jpg
   3. https://fireflyspace.com/
   4. https://fireflyspace.com/blue-ghost/
   5. https://www.youtube.com/@FireflySpace/videos
   6. https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/
   7. https://www.youtube.com/@FireflySpace/streams
   8. https://www.lroc.asu.edu/images/1400
   9. https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/
  10. https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250228.html
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  15. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  20. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=250301
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250302.html
  22. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  24. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  25. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  27. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  28. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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  30. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/
  31. https://science.nasa.gov/learners
  32. http://www.mtu.edu/