Note the gap in the middle – unfortunately*, rain at ESA's ground station in Cebreros, Spain, meant we lost 'telemetry' (data) from Mars Express for a period during the live. This gif is made up of all the images that came down during that hour, roughly 50 seconds apart from each other, beamed directly from the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board ESA’s long-lived but-still-highly-productive martian orbiter. For an hour, it became possible to see the Red Planet in as close to real-time as the speed of light would allow. To celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA’s Mars Express on 2 June, and after months of work from engineers and scientists to make it possible, ESA aired the first-ever Mars livestream.
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