Rain in Spain caused a disruption during last week's transmission, in which Europe's Mars Express Orbiter beamed images to Earth in rapid succession.
“Mars is now approaching the southern winter season,” VMC team member Jorge Hernández Bernal explained in the same press release. “The South Polar cap is apparent in these images, close to the polar night, while the Arsia Mons volcano is present on the left side of the planet. Orographic clouds are also common during this season, and form as the atmosphere flows up mountains and volcanic slopes.
Achieving this milestone proved to be a big task, as the VMC needed a view of the planet at the same time that the orbiter’s antenna was continuously facing Earth in order to immediately stream the data home. Ordinarily, observations are stored onboard the spacecraft and transmitted in a batch to Earth, which can take hours and even days.
These aren’t the most spectacular visuals we’ve ever seen of Mars, but this experiment does give us the sense that we’re increasingly bridging the gap between Earth and the Red Planet.
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