Blue Sphere: The lunar landing module captured a stunning image of Earth from orbit (photo).

The Blue Ghost lunar lander from the American company Firefly Aerospace captured a stunning image of Earth while preparing for its orbit around the Moon, reports Space.

The lander is currently orbiting Earth and will continue to do so for approximately two more weeks. After that, it will ignite its engines and embark on a four-day journey to the Moon. Following this, the Blue Ghost lander will restart its engines to enter orbit around the Moon, where it will remain for 16 days. Only then will the module attempt to land on the lunar surface.

Firefly Aerospace showcased a photograph of our planet taken by the Blue Ghost lander as it fired its engines to increase its orbit.

The Blue Ghost lander is heading to the Moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and is set to deliver several test technologies and important scientific instruments to Earth's satellite. Once Blue Ghost lands on the Moon, it will activate NASA's scientific instruments, which will study the lunar regolith, the dust, the radiation environment on the Moon, and how solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetosphere. The lander will also deploy a array of laser reflectors to help scientists measure the distance from Earth to the Moon more accurately.

Firefly Aerospace's lander is designed to operate on the lunar surface for one lunar day, or two Earth weeks. When the lunar night arrives, the module's batteries will deplete within a few hours.

Before this happens, the lander will have several hours to capture the sunset on the Moon with its onboard cameras and measure how the lunar regolith reacts to twilight and the lunar sunset.