blue ghost i (12. 272)

Launched in mid-January and touching down now in the Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crises, adjacent to the Sea of Tranquility, the basin of a huge impact crater visible from Earth to the naked eye flooded with ancient lava, originally named after the Caspian Sea for its apparent geological correspondence), Firefly Aerospace, sponsored in part by NASA and SpaceX, has achieved only the second successful landing by a commercial enterprise on lunar surface. Carrying a payload of experiments and demonstration projects. The payload of instruments include devices to gauge how the satellite’s regolith (dust) could affect future missions and measure how the Earth’s magnetosphere interacts with the Moon as ways to migrate exposure to solar radiation.