Upon arrival, Firefly's spacecraft will deliver and help test a fleet of NASA's scientific instruments. One week after its launch, here's everything to know about Firefly's lunar lander, Blue Ghost, ...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a photo of frozen sand dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere. Taken in September 2022, the photo shows the dunes covered in carbon dioxide frost. The frost ...
NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, soaring through space with a tiny lunar rover called Tenacious. "After all the testing conducted and mission simulations completed ...
"Scientists use such images to track the amount of frost that settles on the landforms and then disappears as the weather warms in spring," NASA wrote. During Mars' frigid wintertime, it's so ...
A Cedar Park-based aerospace company designed the lunar lander ... of NASA's larger Artemis campaign to establish a long-term presence on the moon and prepare for the exploration of Mars.
The SpaceX launch and private lander contracts are the latest to fall under NASA’s Commercial Lunar ... sustained human presence at the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Each scientific instrument and ...
For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the ... sustained human presence at the Moon, Mars and beyond." The lander, dubbed "Blue Ghost," hitched ...
Why it matters: The journey all the way to Mars and back exacts a huge toll in terms of human lifetime – it entails spending multiple years in the hostile environment of space. But NASA is ...