The livestream celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express orbiter's launch.
ESA held the first-ever"livestream from Mars" today , beaming home photos from itsorbiter in real time — or as close to real time as it's possible to get, given that the Red Planet is currently about 186 million miles from Earth.
The Mars Express team had worked for several months to develop the tools to make today's livestream possible, ESA officials said. "Ooh! Here it is! This is the first image from Mars, and it's the most live that you'll ever get, unless you travel to Mars, to the Red Planet itself," a commentator said about seven minutes into ESA's hour-long webcast, which began at noon EDT today.
The VMC was originally designed to be an engineering instrument; its primary job was to document the separation of Europe'sThat separation occurred on schedule in Mars orbit on Christmas Day 2003. Beagle 2 apparently landed safely, but it failed to phone home. Investigators later determined that one or more of the lander's four solar panels likely, blocking Beagle 2's communications antenna and dooming it to eternal silence on the Martian surface.
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