Firefly Blue Ghost Landing Region

Reduced resolution NAC mosaic of Blue Ghost landing region — The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft was launched toward the Moon on January 15th 2025 and is slated to land on March 2nd. The landing region is located in eastern Mare Crisium (white box; 18.56°N, 61.81°E); NAC orthomosaic, 9167 meters wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Firefly Aerospace built and operates the Blue Ghost lunar lander. Its first mission, Ghost Riders in the Sky, carries ten NASA CLPS science and technology demonstration instruments to Mare Crisium.

Full resolution NAC mosaic of Blue Ghost landing region — The Blue Ghost landing region (image center, 18.56°N, 61.81°E) is heavily cratered due its ancient age (>3 billion years). Image width 1430 meters, north is up [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

The landing region is near a large volcanic cone, Mons Latreille, which formed billions of years ago as part of the massive outpouring of basaltic magma that filled much of the Crisium basin.

Full-resolution large area mosaic of the Blue Ghost landing region (white box near the top, 220 meters wide). The whole mosaic is 9167 meters wide, and north is up [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

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Published by Mark Robinson on 21 February 2025