Private spacecraft gets dramatic view of Earth eclipsing moon
A robotic spacecraft has beamed home crisp videos and snapshots of Earth eclipsing the moon.Though lunar eclipses generally aren't that unusual — stargazers can watch Earth's shadow obscuring the moon a few times a year — this was different. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue marble came between the moon and the spacecraft.
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