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  1. I think space x will definitely install video cameras when they start sending probes to the planets. Hopefully this will be within the next 10 years. They could implement 3d cameras and use oculus rift virtual reality headsets to play back recorded footage. (Live streaming is not even necessary). Elon Musk knows how to make money and what the public wants. Nasa will lose a lot of funding if they don't bring their PR into the 21st century. Nothing moves on the planets? They rotate at 1000s mph. Some have dynamic atmospheric activities, including electrical storms. Active volcanoes are on venus, Io, and other exotic moons. Titon has liquid methane oceans and rivers, waterfalls, rain etc. Mars has dust devils, 2 moons in orbit and a massive canyon system. Can you imagine watching the sunset over that and then watch in awe as Jupitor and it's moons rise in the night sky. Mars being millions of miles closer to Jupitor than Earth. These is also the fact that we can discovery many known unknowns and even more unknown unknowns using video cameras to replicate our eyes and brain in places where our fragile human bodies cannot survive.
  2. The video doesn't need to be transmitted live. Just recorded at 30fps and sent back in chunks of 15 minutes each or even smaller to be reassembled back on earth. Right now we have spacecraft in orbit around a comet, on and orbiting Mars, Saturn's moon titan, Ceres and approaching Pluto. I think that video cameras on these missions would have generated much more public interest with all the fantastic images from this feat of human exploration. It may also inspire a next generation of space engineers and ambitious missions, just like the apollo missions did. For example, I would love to see earthrise from the surface of Ceres, or 'Jupitor rise' from the surface of Europe and am sure that billions of other humans have that in built sense of awe and wonder that has got us where we are today.
  3. Just think about the incredible images from the full colour HD video cameras on the iss as it orbits the earth, then imagine the same on a spacecraft orbiting Ceres, Mars, a comet, Jupitor, Saturn etc. Not only would it look spectacular, but a lot can be learned from close up observation of the movement of the atmospheres of these celestial bodies. Who knows what unexpected things we might see. For instance, there could be geological or atmospheric dynamic activity which would not be apparent in a simple black and white still image.
  4. The public interest is directly related to the amount of funding congress can justify for these missions. The scientists totally fail to realise this as funding continues to decrease due to lack of interest. They managed to put video cameras on the apollo missions and had the whole world in awe. Now they land probes on Mars, titan, and a comet and don't even think that a video camera is any use. It is the closest thing to actually being there and seeing something truely amazing with your own eyes. Putting actual HD broadcast quality videos of the surface of alien planets on pay per view would make them millions. Funding problems for future missions solved.
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