Mars Express celebrates 20th birthday with a livestream from the red planet [TechSpot]

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The spacecraft, consisting of the orbiter and the Beagle-2 lander, was dubbed “Express” due to the close proximity between Earth and Mars at the time of its launch. The orbits of the two planets had brought them closer together than they had been in more than 60,000 years.

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