Images of Mars streamed live on ESA's YouTube channel
CNN reported on the evening of June 2 that the European Space Agency (ESA) for the first time broadcast live images from Mars on YouTube.
The live stream begins at 12 a.m. ET, with new images appearing every 50 seconds, captured by the VMC, a camera mounted on the Mars Express spacecraft orbiting Mars.
The live stream lasted about an hour, with updates posted on ESA's Twitter account. The agency said the live stream provided an unprecedented view of the red planet.
The livestream commemorates the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Mars Express spacecraft, a mission to capture detailed 3D images of the Martian surface.
"Normally, we look at images of Mars and know they were taken many days ago. I'm excited to see a live image of Mars, as close to reality as possible," said James Godfrey, spacecraft operations manager at ESA's mission control center in Germany.
Depending on the position of Mars and Earth when revolving around the sun, the time for the image to be transmitted back can take from 3 to 22 minutes. ESA estimates that it takes about 17 minutes for the image to be transmitted directly from Mars to Earth, plus 1 minute to be transmitted via the line, the server on Earth to be live.
“Note, we have never attempted anything like this before, so the exact travel time of the signals to the ground is still uncertain,” the agency said in a statement ahead of the live image from Mars.
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