How to watch the first ESA Mars Express ‘live’ stream

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An artist’s recreation of the Mars Express against the backdrop of Mars, with the words “First Mars Livestream” at the top and the ESA logo in the bottom left corner
The ESA will be streaming images on YouTube from the Mars Express spacecraft on June 2nd, 2023. | Image: European Space Agency

On June 2nd, 2023, the European Space Agency will be livestreaming images from the Mars Express, a spacecraft that first launched twenty years ago, per the agency’s announcement on Wednesday. The stream will take place for one hour, beginning on June 2nd at 11:45AM ET and will show new images every 50 seconds as they come straight from the Express’ Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC).

The announcement points out that the images won’t be “live” per se, as it takes anywhere from three to 22 minutes for them to reach the Earth thanks to the famously slow speed of light. (That’s a joke — light is, to our knowledge, still the record holder for universal speed.)

The Mars Express has been through a lot while making key discoveries about our rusty...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743463/esa-mars-express-live-stream

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