There's a new lander on the Moon. Yesterday Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost executed the first-ever successful commercial lunar landing. During its planned 60-day mission, Blue Ghost will deploy several NASA-commissioned scientific instruments, including PlanetVac which captures lunar dust after creating a small whirlwind of gas.

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That tiny single orb contains the sum total of people on this planet, except of course for Mormons who have vacation homes on Kolob

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we take the picture again? I blinked.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That does it, we've all decided that you shouldn't be in the photo

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The moon is haunted?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Blame humans

[–] coconutking@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wonkawonka

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