Usually the venerable web cam is used for small-scale , local tasks , like taking deep - in - thought Facebook profile pics , making me - too webcasts , or hole-and-corner girl ’s locker room documentaries . But did you know there ’s also a web River Cam circle the Red Planet flop now ? Called the Visual Monitoring Camera ( VMC ) , the cam is attach to the European Space Agency ’s Mars Express , and was last used to visually confirm the Beagle lander ’s separation from the main spacecraft . It was then put into sopor modality , and has been in that state of matter for the retiring three age . Bo - ring . The ESA family thought so too , and on a whim they give the command to wake up back in 2007 . It did , and now they require your supporter processing a class ’s worth of range of a function .
Says the ESA :
subject invitation for image feedback : : you could assist the Mars Express team with additional processing of the peeled image data point files as well as rendering : What do you see ? What part of the Mars aerofoil is being demonstrate ? Can you identify any geographical features ? What regions of the standard pressure or atmospheric components do you see ?
Keep in brain these images are what they ’re call “ tourist quality ” ( i.e. non - scientific ) , so they are n’t going to be used in any major written report or experimentation anytime shortly . They are , however , perfect for Mars partizan and weather - watchers . And who knows , perchance you ’ll be lucky enough to use this WWW cam to spot a regardless Martian doing something they ca n’t take back . Interstellar YouTube video ? WIN . [ ESAviaDiscover Magazine ]
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