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🗓️ 6 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home, where we bring you some of the more intriguing and downright cool stories from around the world. |
0:08.8 | I'm Marcus Paff. He's Reggie Rizzou. On today's episode, Blue Ghost lands on the moon and is already sending data back to Earth. |
0:18.1 | Speaking of Earth, its biggest iceberg has run aground. What are the implications? |
0:23.3 | And on this day in history, the first major public malware scare in history. All coming up on cool |
0:29.8 | stuff. For only the second time in history, a lunar lander from a private company has successfully |
0:35.5 | touched down on the moon. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost made the historic milestone when it landed on March 2nd |
0:42.3 | near Manz Latre in Mairecrisium and it has already begun its scientific operations, |
0:47.9 | capturing breathtaking images and gathering crucial data for NASA. |
0:52.4 | The latest image shared by Firefly from March 3rd showcases a |
0:56.2 | striking lunar sunrise. The company posted on X, quote, rise and shine. Firefly's blue ghost |
1:02.6 | lander captured its first sunrise on the moon, marking the beginning of the lunar day and the start |
1:08.1 | of the surface operations in its new home, end quote. This marks the beginning of a two-week-long mission, during which the landers 10 NASA |
1:15.7 | Science Space Loads will conduct experiments on lunar composition, heat flow, space weather, |
1:21.0 | and dust dynamics. Over 46 days, it traveled 2.8 million miles from NASA's Kennedy Space |
1:27.2 | Center to its final lunar destination, as when it lifted off, it traveled 2.8 million miles from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to its final lunar |
1:28.6 | destination, as when it lifted off, it traveled around the Earth multiple times before heading |
1:34.0 | to the moon and circling the moon before it made its descent. During its descent, the studio |
1:39.6 | cameras from Lunar Plum Surface Studies recorded images of the landing, data that could offer insights |
1:45.6 | into how engine plumes interact with the lunar surface. Meanwhile, the Electrodynamic Dust |
1:50.9 | has successfully demonstrated its ability to lift and remove lunar dust using electrical |
1:56.3 | forces, a promising advancement for future lunar missions. The mission also made history with the Lunar GNSS receiver experiment, |
2:05.6 | which successfully acquired and tracked global navigation satellite system signals |
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