CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost just completed its mission ...

During operations, the lander beamed a total of about 120 gigabytes of data — equivalent to more than 24,000 songs — back to Earth. Blue Ghost’s endeavors included acquiring the farthest ...

Brian Walsh’s experiment on Blue Ghost did not look at the moon but back at Earth. “It’s a really good vantage point,” said Dr. Walsh, a professor of mechanical engineering at Boston ...

but instantly they went back to operating the payloads and collecting all the science data and beaming it down to the Earth.” In addition to the NASA science data collected, Blue Ghost shared ...

This image provided by NASA/Firefly Aerospace shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP) NASA’s Joel Kearns said Blue Ghost’s series of sunset ...