You won’t see the NASA’s Perseverance rover, but the ESA’s livestream of Mars yesterday did provide a colorful look at the planet. This event had the Mars Express orbiter beaming back images in near real-time, as it takes around 18 minutes for communication between Earth and the spacecraft.
Mars Express’s Visual Monitoring Camera was initially designed to monitor the separation of the Beagle 2 lander from the ‘MEX’ spacecraft 20-years ago. After that was complete, and reported back, it was turned off until 2007 for science as well as outreach activities. Teams spent the past few months developing tools that would enable higher-quality, science-processed images to be streamed, live, for a full hour.
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This picture was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter, in color and 3D. The location is east of the Hellas basin at 41° South and 101° East. The area is 100 km across, with a resolution of 12 m per pixel, and shows a channel (Reull Vallis) once formed by flowing water. The landscape is seen in a vertical view, North is at the top,” said the ESA.
