NASA Shows First Footage When Blue Ghost Lands On The Moon

Images of the time Blue Ghost landed (photo: Doc. NASA)

JAKARTA Firefly Aerospace's "Waana Blue Ghost" landed on the surface of the Moon at the end of February 2025. When the ride landed, NASA managed to capture the landing moment.

This moment was captured by the team at NASA's Maritime Research Center. This ignored portrait is considered very important because it displays engine bursts during the first Blue Ghost lander interacting with the lunar surface.

This image was taken by the Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SALPSS) 1.1 instrument. NASA explained that this instrument took pictures when the lander started to land until the plane landed successfully at the Mare Crisium.

"This compressed and limited-resolution video features an initial series combined by NASA researchers of four short-focused long-camera SCALPSS 1.1, which takes photos at 8 frames per second during the dip and landing," NASA explained.

According to NASA technicians, the first immortalized footage begins when the lander is 28 meters above the lunar surface. The next footage shows interaction between the burst of the controlling drive and the surface at an altitude of 15 meters.

The recording continues as the lander drops and the bursts get stronger. Therefore, the dust, soil, and rocks look like the wind is blowing. The instrument still captures the moment when the Blue Ghost booster dies and the dust settles again.

"By using a technique called stereo photogrametry, the team will later combine overlapping images of a set of cameras with long focal lengths, one more than short focal length to create a 3D digital elevation map from the surface," NASA explained.