ESA live from Mars

[mikegarrison]

 

They are explaining that Mars Express can either point its cameras at Mars, or point the antenna at Earth, but not usually both at the same time. However, they have a narrow window where they can do both at the same time.

[mikegarrison]

Oops. They have lost the live signal due to bad weather at the local Earth ground station. The rains in Spain fall mainly on the groundstation, apparently.

[mikegarrison]

Livestream is about to end.

The entire event was in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Mars Express mission.

[cubinator]

This was pretty cool!

[Gargamel]

I’ll have to watch later.     Thanks for posting. 

[StrandedonEarth]

Now if only one of these livestream opportunities would coincide with Saturday night. SNL could have a field day with that!