Mars Express - Siding Spring flyby

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Report live from the Mars Express operations team at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. Europe’s Mars orbiter and its scientific instruments had a frontrow seat when Comet Siding Spring grazed the Red Planet, skimming past at a little more than a third of the Moon’s distance from Earth. Siding Spring, discovered in January 2013, is less than a kilometre across and passed Mars at 56 km/s, closing to within 139 500 km at 18:27 GMT (20:27 CEST) on 19 October 2014. More about Mars Express: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express http://blogs.esa.int/mex

Published 2014-10-19 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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