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 on June 2, 2003. 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.

Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Michael, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO | edited by [Steve Spaleta](https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)