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This is how an astronaut will view Mars from orbit

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Using 600 photographs collected by its Mars Express orbiter, the European Space Agency has given us a brief but captivating glimpse of what it will look like for a human to orbit Mars. If we ever get there, that is.

https://gizmodo.com/with-current-budget-nasa-will-never-get-to-mars-514301367

The images were captured by the orbiter’s Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) during a single, complete 7-hour orbit of the Red Planet on May 27th, 2010. The video’s been released in a few forms since then, but this “new and enhanced” view was released in anticipation of the VMC’s latest batch of images.

Looking for a closer view of the Martian surface? Check out this landing video, captured last August by NASA’s Curiosity rover during its descent through the planet’s atmosphere.

https://gizmodo.com/heres-one-last-video-of-curiositys-landing-because-hol-5943016

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