Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost's Chilling New Perspective From the Moon
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Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospaces Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, 2025, near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moons near side. Credit: Firefly Aerospace
More than 50 years after Apollo 8s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moons surface delivers a hauntingly different view.
Captured by the Blue Ghost lander in 2025, this photograph portrays Earth as a ghostly, distant orb hovering over the lunar expanse.
A Photograph That Changed the World
In 1968, during Apollo 8s historic orbit around the Moon, astronaut Bill Anders took one of the most famous photographs in history: Earthrise. The image captured Earth as a brilliant blue-and-white sphere rising above the Moons barren landscape. It not only reshaped NASAs perspective on our planet but also fueled the growing environmental movement, highlighting Earths beauty and fragility.
We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth, Anders later said of his journey. Earth was the only thing in color. Everything else was black or white. It was the only thing that had any life to it.
Now, more than 50 years later, a new photograph taken from the Moons surface offers a strikingly different perspective. This latest image, known as the Blue Ghost photo, shows Earth as a small, gray speck suspended in the vastness of space, drifting beyond the Moons desolate horizon.
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Earthrise Revealed: Unearthing the True Story Behind the Image of the Century
