See the Blue Ghost spacecraft drilling into the moon’s surface

See the Blue Ghost spacecraft drilling into the moon’s surface

The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect information about temperature.

Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying

While Intuitive Machines' Athena lander quickly met its demise after awkwardly stumbling and ending up on its side, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft, which touched down just a few days earlier, is leaping into action. After sending back a stunning image of the Sun rising in the distant horizon, the lander wasted no time and kicked off its Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) experiment. The goal is to drill into the lun…

Moon lander digs up major data not collected since Apollo astronauts

Firefly's Blue Ghost moon lander just achieved the first collection of lunar heat-flow data without humans, during a NASA experiment.

Watch Firefly’s Blue Ghost Tear a Hole in the Lunar Surface

Blue Ghost is in the midst of spending an entire lunar day on the surface of the Moon, or the equivalent of 14 days on Earth.

Watch sparks fly as Blue Ghost lander drills into the moon

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has beamed back video of its ongoing lunar science operations, including drilling into the surface of the moon.

Watch Blue Ghost Test its Vacuum and Drill Experiments on the Moon - Universe Today

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission has successfully touched down on the lunar surface and is now undertaking various experiments. Two of these experiments have been captured on video; the first is the LISTER drill, capable of penetrating the lunar regolith to depths of up to 3 meters. It will provide scientists with data to measure the Moon's cooling rate. Additionally, footage has been obtained of the PlanetVac experiment, which is evaluati…