The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter’s Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC), originally designed to provide images of the ill-fated Beagle lander’s separation, is now back in action as the ‘Mars Webcam’. Not a scientific instrument it is providing “fantastic views of Mars,” according to ESA including crescent views of the planet not obtainable from Earth
Go here for more of the webcam’s images
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Goodbye Beagle! Its final resting place still a mystery to be solved by future explorers of the Red Planet
