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Mars in near real-time - stunning time-lapse and color pic marks European probe's 20th anniversary
The Mars Express orbiter launched to the Red Planet. Twenty years later, ESA has delivered a high resolution color image of Mars along with a time-lapse of "webcam" images that were released in near real-time.
Launched in 2013, Maven began studying the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet the following year