Having nailed its own landing, Blue Ghost will now spend a full lunar day (about two weeks) performing research operations, including “lunar subsurface drilling, sample collecti

Once it arrived, the lander took plenty of pictures of our nearest celestial neighbor. From here, Blue Ghost will spend the next two weeks in lunar orbit, awaiting its chance to land and start performing its various experiments. The expected landing date is March 2.

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone