"First-ever Livestream from Mars: Watch History in the Making"

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"First-ever Livestream from Mars: Watch History in the Making"
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The European Space Agency will offer a one-hour "livestream" of Mars on YouTube, featuring pictures of the planet every 50 seconds as they are beamed down directly from the space agency's camera mounted on the Mars Express orbiter. The livestream celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express mission, which launched in 2003 to better understand the planet and search for traces of water. Live footage from deep space is rare, and this is the first lengthy livestream from deep space.

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