Scientists have achieved another success. The European Space Agency has succeeded in live-streaming video from Mars for the first time. Europe’s Mars Express, while hovering over Mars, transmitted a video feed, which reached Earth minutes later.
Shockingly, each picture took about 17 minutes to get to Earth, some 300 million kilometres away, and another minute to arrive through ground stations. The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on Mars Express, which acts as a webcam, captured the pictures.
The footage first showed about one-third of Mars, gradually expanding into the frame and shrinking as the spacecraft orbited the planet. White clouds can also be seen clearly in some pictures. Please tell us that Mars Express has been circling Mars for 20 years.
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“Mars Express outlives, outperforms, and exceeds expectations,” the European Space Agency said. Simon Wood, the mission’s spacecraft operations engineer, told The Associated Press that photos and other data are typically stored on the spacecraft and later returned to Earth when the spacecraft’s antenna can be pointed that way.
Launched on 2 June 2003, the spacecraft was intended to study Mars’s geology, climate and atmosphere. Its radar device, MARSIS, The mission has been instrumental in detecting water ice below and above the planet’s surface. The mission will continue exploring Mars until at least 2026.
