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Mars webcam now live

Posted Aug 22, 2008 at 5:03PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Tags: ESA, Europe, gaming accessories, Mars, Webcam

The webcam's gone way beyond just global, it's gone off to outer space! That's right, folks. There's now a roving webcam in space, and it's on board Europe's Mars Express orbiter that's been circling the red planet since 2003.

The Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera just went live today, and ESA has been going trigger-happy with it since, clicking away with the camera to show some tourists a view of Mars. Actually, it's been used to confirm the Beagle lander's separation from the main spacecraft, although now, what makes it big news is that even ordinary non-space tourists folks like us can now check it out too.

Apart from being just a viewing machine, the camera can also be used to monitor weather and other changes in the planet. It doesn't hurt that the view's spectacular too, of course. To make the experience even more universal, the Mars Express team has sent out their invitation:

Open invitation for image feedback:: You can assist the Mars Express team with additional processing of the raw image data files as well as interpretation: What do you see? What part of the Mars surface is being shown? Can you identify any geographical features? What regions of the atmosphere or atmospheric components do you see?

To experience Mars firsthand, do click on the source link below. It should lead you to ESA's official Mars webcam page.

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Now we need one for the moon.

Would love to see the moon close up live on webcam.

You never know what you may see.

I recently saw lightening on the moon through my celestron telescope. Although it's supposed to have no Atmosphere or weather! I know I will get flamed for that comment but I know what I saw!

# Lightning was realy — IrishMcPirate 2008-08-23 09:50

Swamp Gas.

# ha — Soupman 2008-08-23 15:56

it was probably something between you and the moon. you didnt see lightning on the moon. although that would be pretty damn sweet

# I looked into this and lightening has been observed before — arnookie 2008-08-24 02:18

Lightening was observed on the moon for centuries. Many famouse astronomers have witnessed this before!

Look into it you might be surprised.

# Cool — avatar76 2008-08-24 19:07

Would love to see some captures of lightning on the moon, though I'm still at a loss to think how you could get the polarised opposite upper atmosphere to generate lightning.

Has anyone noticed that there's been no new news added since like Saturday?

Has the Hadron collider wiped out all life on the other side of the plannet? :)

# lol good one — kraft 2008-08-24 21:04

but i have noticed that too.. qj has been pretty slow lately

# Whats up with QJ? — Lethal_NFS 2008-08-25 03:35

Its been 3 days since the last updated news. They all quit?

# I think — whaleshark 2008-08-25 04:06

They are coming out of their summer hibernation cycle lol. Hopefully they are getting ready for Christmas... when gaming news hell opens up.

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