ESA to conduct first-ever live broadcast from Mars

European Space Agency (ESA) announced the first live broadcast from the Mars Express spacecraft, which was launched 20 years ago. The broadcast will last one hour.

During the broadcast, new images will be shown every 50 seconds, coming directly from the Express Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC). The agency notes that they will not be “alive”, since it takes from 3 to 22 minutes for their delivery to Earth.

The broadcast will take place on Friday, June 2. The launch is scheduled for 19:00 Moscow time. And you can watch it on YouTube channel agencies. ESA also promises to publish images in its Twitter account.

Mars Express was launched on June 2, 2003. Already on December 25, she began flying around Mars, which the media called a real Christmas miracle. Over almost two decades of operation, the probe studied the planet's atmosphere in detail, fixing methane in it, discovered water ice in the southern polar cap, sent thousands of magnificent photographs and video.