On Friday, to celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA’s Mars Express, you’ll have the chance to get as close as it’s currently possible get to a live view from Mars. Tune in to be amongst the first to see new pictures roughly every 50 seconds as they’re beamed down directly from the Visual Monitoring Camera on board ESA’s long-lived and still highly productive martian orbiter.

“This is an old camera, originally planned for engineering purposes, at a distance of almost three million kilometres from Earth – this hasn’t been tried before and to be honest, we’re not 100% certain it’ll work,” explains James Godfrey, Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

“But I’m pretty optimistic. Normally, we see images from Mars and know that they were taken days before. I’m excited to see Mars as it is now – as close to a martian ‘now’ as we can possibly get!’

Read more: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Tune_in_for_first_Mars_livestream

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  1. Hello. I'm not agree to keep the battery in the fridge, because we open the fridge many times a day, and water co densates on everything in it, especially if you get 4 batteries, take one and the rest three you put back, batteries will start discharge, because of the thin water condensated on it.

  2. 18 hrs late, got my time zones and timing mixed up but this was still awesome to watch! To think it was only suppose to have 1 Martian year of operation and they've gotten 10 out of it! Really enjoyable stream, cant wait to see what could be done with future mars satelites if this is what we get from something 20 years old. To me just getting live image updates is cool regardless of quality, though I still think the images are pretty decent. NZer here and excited for the future of space exploration! Thanks to the team for putting this forward even with the risks that it might not work out and the impact on data dumps.

  3. I've always felt mars was special.. Now I know why… Thank you for doing live stream it's really awesome seeing our solar system and the possibilities of other life.. We should build radiation reflecters to keep those who explored there so they can be safe … Keep up the live stream ❤❤❤

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