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 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. Blue Ghost has spent the last week drilling into the lunar surface within the Mare Crisium, a massive basin in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side. In a video shared earlier this week, the […]

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