Pictures stream live from Mars orbiter

The European Space Agency streamed a one-hour live feed from its Martian orbiter, Mars Express, on Friday. Host Carol Hills explains what viewers got to see from the red planet in near real-time, and what the ESA called, “as close to a Martian ‘now’ as we can possibly get.'”

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