'This will be the closest you can get to a live view from the Red Planet.' It begins at 12 pm ET (1600 GMT). Update for 2:45 p.m. ET: ESA's livestream from the Mars Express Orbiter has concluded ...

That's how many times it has circled the red planet in the last 20 years. Image of Mars taken from an altitude of 4708.20 km. ESA/VMC The Mars Webcam ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Earthlings will be able to witness history in the making Friday as the European Space Agency holds the world’s first “livestream” from the planet Mars. For one hour on ...

Red planet rising: Watch Mars make its closest approach to Earth – and then duck behind the full moon . Ivan Semeniuk Science Reporter. Published January 11, 2025Updated January 13, 2025.

The Mars Express, which launched in 2003, is the ESA's first attempt to visit a planet in the solar system. It has also used the same technology in the Mars 96 and ESA Rosetta missions. Read More ...

The image of Mars shows off the Red Planet’s renowned colour from the viewpoint of ESA’s Rosetta mission as it flew past on February 24, 2007, en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.