Now, scientists aren’t so sure, thanks to incredible new images from the United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter. That was the suspected origin for the smaller of Mars’ two moons, Deimos. This kind of simultaneous formation is believed to be the origin of most moons, with a smaller portion being captured asteroids. They hang out with their planets because they came up together. And some of those objects even get captured by a planet and become moons.įor the most part, moons are believed to form in the protoplanetary disk, alongside their planets.
We are visited, however, by interplanetary objects of all sizes and shapes, all of the time. Things don’t go well for the humans or the aliens, but fortunately, little green men in advanced spaceships don’t often visit our solar system. At the crash site, they find an object buried in the smoldering pit, with astounding extraterrestrial origins. It follows John Putnam and Ellen Fields, an amateur astronomer and a schoolteacher, respectively, as they witness the crash of a meteorite nearby. Wilson added, "If you're very close to it, it is even brighter and it obscures the surrounding stars in this particular angle the spacecraft is snapping images from."īut, if you were on the Mars Express spacecraft, you would be able to see much of the cosmos, Wilson noted, adding, "And that is, in fact, critical to how it navigates.Set and released in the 1950s, hot on the heels of a growing public fascination with UFOs, It Came From Outer Space explores what might happen when a small town comes face to face with alien visitors. "Note, we've never tried anything like this before, so exact travel times for signals on the ground remain a little uncertain," the agency said in a statement prior to the event, according to CNN.Ī project scientist at ESA, Colin Wilson said that no stars were visible in the background of the images because Mars is quite bright. The time it takes for a communication to travel through space can range from 3 to 22 minutes, depending on where Mars and Earth are in their orbits around the sun.Īccording to the ESA, it would take around 17 minutes for the light needed to create the images to travel directly from Mars to Earth, and another minute for it to pass through the servers and wires on Earth in order to start the live feed. The photographs are held until they can be sent back because data and observations of the red planet are frequently made when a spacecraft is not in direct touch with Earth, ESA said. He added, "I'm excited to see Mars as it is now - as close to a Martian 'now' as we can possibly get!"īut haven't we already seen pictures of Mars? Yes, the ESA said, but not live, as per CNN. "Normally, we see images from Mars and know that they were taken days before," James Godfrey, spacecraft operations manager at ESA's mission control centre said in a statement. The orbiter was sent on a mission to capture three-dimensional pictures of the planet's surface in order to better understand it. The ceremony commemorated the 20th anniversary of the agency's Mars Express orbiter's launch. The European Space Agency (ESA) steamed historic live photos from Mars on YouTube allowing the viewers on Earth, for the first time, to see Mars nearly in real-time, reported CNN.Īccording to ESA, the photographs displayed the planet in a way that had never been seen before and was posted on YouTube, the ESA Twitter account, and with the hashtag #MarsLIVE.
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