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Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by consumer451 »

jjk166 wrote: post #22
consumer451 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like "Our Blue Ghost lunar lander now has a permanent home on the lunar surface..." It's rare that usage of word "permanent" has this close to an accurate meaning. Complete development of the moon's surface aside, what are the factors what will destroy it? Solar and cosmic radiation? What timescale are we talking about here?

The're a surprisingly high flux of micrometeoroid impacts at the lunar surface. Most of these are too small to do much damage, but there will probably be measurable erosion in centuries and genuine damage within about 1 million years. The timeline for it to be destroyed/completely broken down is much longer. For context, there's roughly a 50% chance of an astronaut being hit by a micrometeoroid large enough to kill t…

Thank you for seeing through my sloppy writing, and identifying what I was getting at. I should have have said "aside from human intervention."

So, aside from the human intervention, and assuming that the materials can generally withstand radiation... let's say it's 6 sq meters, [0] I know this is not exactly how it works, but if LLMs[1] and my own lacking skills at mathematics are accurate, then ~70 million years? That sounds so much more "permanent" than anything on Earth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive_Machines_Nova-C

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67c51a06-51e8-8012-9f21-c9a428551d... (it would be amazing if someone could verify this math and logic, I cannot)

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by tiahura »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #40
RangerScience wrote: post #39

Horray! Also: - Wow but the moon is 3D. Like, when we see shots of Earth, the ground always looks so flat, but the depth of the craters and the heights of the ridges is really, really amazing to see - ...KSP did a really good job mimicking the real thing

insert flat-moon comment here

Why are the interiors of the craters uniformly deep?

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by decimalenough »

sfjailbird wrote: post #12

Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.

It's fascinating how the pictures have that "Apollo moon landing" look. I'd always assumed that a huge part of this was just 1960s technology (film not digital etc), but apparently it's actually coming from the literally unearthly lighting conditions of being on the Moon.

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by consumer451 »

sva_ wrote: post #34
sfjailbird wrote: post #12

Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.

Flickr? Moon landing? What year is it?

This is an interesting tangent. Is it Flickr's copyright rules that make it attractive? Or, something else? Lack of existing competitors? Not associated with a social media account?

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by [deleted] »

duxup wrote: post #44
sfjailbird wrote: post #12

Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.

The videos are amazing https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54353240540/in/al...

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Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by gwarrr »

decimalenough wrote: post #53
sfjailbird wrote: post #12

Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.

It's fascinating how the pictures have that "Apollo moon landing" look. I'd always assumed that a huge part of this was just 1960s technology (film not digital etc), but apparently it's actually coming from the literally unearthly lighting conditions of being on the Moon.

I am no expert, but to my knowledge the space flight tech evolves very slowly, if at all. One reason for that is that modern tech is supposedly too sensitive to radiation. So you want to balance what's worthwhile to upgrade, and fancy videos are probably low on that list.

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by nerdponx »

RangerScience wrote: post #39

Horray! Also: - Wow but the moon is 3D. Like, when we see shots of Earth, the ground always looks so flat, but the depth of the craters and the heights of the ridges is really, really amazing to see - ...KSP did a really good job mimicking the real thing

I noticed this too. Something about the perspective is unnerving, like an amusement park ride. You can see clearly that the moon is small, the craters are big, and the orbiting spacecraft is moving really really fast, all at the same time. None of that is apparent from video of low Earth orbit. And then the stark lighting makes it feel even more bizarre and alien.

Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

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Post by gonzo41 »

decimalenough wrote: post #53
sfjailbird wrote: post #12

Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.

It's fascinating how the pictures have that "Apollo moon landing" look. I'd always assumed that a huge part of this was just 1960s technology (film not digital etc), but apparently it's actually coming from the literally unearthly lighting conditions of being on the Moon.

Well it's either that or the tin foil hat people will say they just rented the OG soundstage.

Nvidia did a great presentation about the lighting for the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syVP6zDZN7I

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