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Andrew Jones

Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA see Earth's magnetic field 'breathing' for 1st time

A gold-foiled fixed-leg lander probe stands on a grey semi rocky surface beneath a black sky.

Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it responds to space weather.

The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager instrument, or LEXI, is one of 10 NASA payloads aboard Blue Ghost, which is set to launch at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday (Jan. 15) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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