In a first, viewers on Earth got a chance to see Mars nearly in real time
. The European Space Agency streamed on YouTube historic live images directly from the red planet. The images, shared on YouTube, ESA’s Twitter account and with the hashtag #MarsLIVE, showed the planet in a way it has never been seen before, ESA said. The event celebrated the 20th anniversary of the launch of the agency’s Mars Express orbiter — a mission to take three-dimensional images of the planet’s surface to see it in more complete detail.
No stars were visible in the background of the images because Mars is quite bright, noted Colin Wilson, a project scientist at ESA. “If you’re very close to it, it is even brighter,” Wilson noted, and that obscures the surrounding stars in this particular angle the spacecraft is snapping images from. But, if you were on the Mars Express spacecraft, you would be able to see much of the cosmos, Wilson added. “And that is in fact critical to how Mars Express navigates,” he said.
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