"Experience Mars Like Never Before: Livestream Takes You Closer Than Ever"

The European Space Agency streamed live images of Mars for the first time ever on Friday, giving people a chance to get as close as possible to the red planet. The livestream was part of a celebration for the 20th birthday of the agency's Mars Express mission. New images from the agency's Visual Monitoring Camera were sent roughly every 50 seconds, with it taking about 18 minutes between the time the images were taken from orbit to finally showing up on the screen. The Mars Webcam has been used for decades to help research the planet.