Broadcast celebrates 20 years of unmanned Mars Express mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) performs this Friday, 2, from 13h the first live transmission of Mars to celebrate the unmanned Mars Express mission. According to an ESA statement, for one hour, every 50 seconds, new images from the Visual Monitoring Camera (VWC) installed on the agency’s orbiter will be shared. The time between the photos being taken and appearing on the screen will be around 18 minutes, the agency explained. Despite being unheard of, experts reported that it is the first time they have done this and that they have never tried anything like it and that the camera used is an old one, which was initially planned for engineering purposes. Despite being called live, as there is a delay in the time the image is taken and shared, it is not exactly a ‘live’, because the transmission is not instantaneous, not least because light takes 17 minutes to travel between the two planets.
Source: Jovempan
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