Saturday, June 3, 2023 | 03:27 WIB
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Dortmund, Beritasatu.com – The European Space Agency (ESA) will stream the first live images of Planet Mars that can be seen realtime of YouTube. Streaming will start at 6pm Central European time, or noon, and show a new image every 50 seconds.
Updates will also be available on the ESA’s Twitter account and hashtags #MarsLIVE the space agency said.
The event celebrated the 20th anniversary of the launch of the agency’s Mars Express, a mission to take three-dimensional images of the planet’s surface to see it in more detail.
“Usually, we see an image from Mars and know it was taken days in advance,” said James Godfrey, spacecraft operations manager at ESA’s mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany.
“I’m excited to see Mars as it is now, as close to ‘now’ Mars as we can get!”
But haven’t we seen images of Mars before? Yes, but not live, said the ESA.
Often data and observations of the red planet are taken when the spacecraft is not in direct contact with Earth, so images are stored until they can be sent back, ESA said.
Depending on the positions of Mars and Earth in their orbits around the sun, messages traveling through space can take anywhere from 3 to 22 minutes.
To begin the live stream, ESA estimates it will take about 17 minutes for the light needed to form an image to travel directly from Mars to Earth and then another minute to pass through cables and servers on the ground, the agency said.
“Note, we’ve never tried anything like this before, so the exact travel times for signals on the ground remain a little uncertain,” the agency said in a statement.
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