Если из истории убрать всю ложь, то это совсем не значит, что останется одна только правда - в результате может вообще ничего не остаться. Станислав Ежи Лец
On Friday, to celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA’s Mars Express, you’ll have the
chance to get as close as it’s currently possible get to a live view from Mars.
Tune in to be amongst the first to see new pictures roughly every 50 seconds as
they’re beamed down directly from the Visual Monitoring Camera on board ESA’s
long-lived and still highly productive martian orbiter.
“This is an old camera,
originally planned for engineering purposes, at a distance of almost three
million kilometres from Earth – this hasn’t been tried before and to be honest,
we’re not 100% certain it’ll work,” explains James Godfrey, Spacecraft
Operations Manager at ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
“But I’m pretty optimistic. Normally, we see images from Mars and know that they were
taken days before. I’m excited to see Mars as it is now – as close to a martian
‘now’ as we can possibly get!’
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