'This will be the closest you can get to a live view from the Red Planet.'
"This will be the closest you can get to a live view from the Red Planet," ESA officialsMars Express' images will get to Earth today 18 minutes after they're snapped, if all goes according to plan, they added. It will take 17 minutes for them to get to our planet fromAn artist's impression of the Mars Express orbiter, superimposed over a photo of Mars taken by the spacecraft's High Resolution Stereo Camera.
Mars Express launched with a lander called Beagle 2 on June 2, 2003. The duo arrived in orbit around the Red Planet on Christmas Day of that year. Beagle 2 touched down on Mars that same day but never phoned home, apparently because one or more of its four solar panels failed to deploy properly and ended upMars Express, however, got up and running as planned, studying the Red Planet in detail with seven different science instruments.
The orbiter has accomplished a great deal during its two decades away from Earth. For example, it detected methane in the
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