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tahanson43206

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Live Streaming from Mars

For SpaceNut ... we have many topics in the Unmanned Probes Index, but none seemed a good fit for this category

ESA is (apparently) planning to attempt to "live" stream a data flow from Mars today 2023/06/02.

The delay of the transmission will be on the order of 17 minutes, which matches the delay predicted in the daily Calendar update.

A relative sent this CNN link ...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/world/ma … 5703848898

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tahanson43206

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Re: Live Streaming from Mars

This appears to be the URL for the live feed.  As of 13:51 local time, nothing had shown up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyVNqeJ6wQ

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Re: Live Streaming from Mars

Seems mother earth had other ideas.
First-of-its-kind Mars livestream by ESA spacecraft interrupted at times by rain on Earth

The European Space Agency broadcast the livestream with views courtesy of its Mars Express, launched by a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan in 2003.

It took nearly 17 minutes for each picture to reach Earth, nearly 200 million miles (300 million kilometers) away, and another minute to get through the ground stations.

The transmission was disrupted at times by rainy weather at the deep space-relay antenna in Spain.