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  2. Visual Monitoring Camera - Wikipedia

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    The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC), [1] also known as the Video Monitoring Camera [2] and Mars Webcam, is a small camera mounted on Mars Express spacecraft. It is operated by the Mars Express Flight Control Team at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany. Originally, VMC was a technical camera to monitor the separation of the Beagle 2 lander, but after a ...

  3. Timekeeping on Mars - Wikipedia

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    The Mars time of noon is 12:00 which is in Earth time 12 hours and 20 minutes after midnight. For the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Phoenix, and Mars Science Laboratory missions, the operations teams have worked on "Mars time", with a work schedule synchronized to the local time at the landing site on Mars, rather than the ...

  4. High Definition Earth Viewing cameras - Wikipedia

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    The system is composed of four commercial high definition video cameras which were built to record video of the Earth from multiple angles by having them mounted on the International Space Station. The cameras streamed live video of Earth to be viewed online and on NASA TV on the show Earth Views. Previously-recorded video now plays in a ...

  5. Starship launch - live: SpaceX launches world’s biggest ...

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    A 120-minute launch window opens at 7am local time (1pm BST), with lift-off scheduled for 7.50am CT. You can watch a live stream of the Starship launch below. Starship launch live stream

  6. Mars sol - Wikipedia

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    The average duration of the day-night cycle on Mars — i.e., a Martian day — is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds, [3] equivalent to 1.02749125 Earth days. [4] The sidereal rotational period of Mars—its rotation compared to the fixed stars—is 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22.66 seconds. [4]

  7. MarsDial - Wikipedia

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    MarsDials were placed on the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, inscribed with the words "Two worlds, One sun" and the word "Mars" in 22 languages. [1] The MarsDial can function as a gnomon, the stick or other vertical part of a sundial. [2] [3] The length and direction of the shadow cast by the stick allows observers to calculate the time of ...

  8. Streaming and texting on the Moon: Nokia and NASA are ... - AOL

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    A mission launching this year will carry a simple 4G network to the Moon, helping to lay the building blocks for long-term human presence on other planets.

  9. List of space stations - Wikipedia

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    The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS of the 127th Space Shuttle mission in 2009. The record for most people on all space stations at the same time has been 17, first on May 30, 2023, with 11 people on the ISS and 6 on the TSS. [2]