A European spacecraft around Mars sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth on Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of its launch, but rain in Spain interfered at times.
The European Space Agency broadcast the livestream with views courtesy of its Mars Express, launched by a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan in 2003.
"If you were currently sitting on board Mars Express ... this is what you would be seeing," said Simon Wood, the mission's spacecraft operations engineer."We typically don't normally get images in this way."
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