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For the first time, we'll see Mars 'live' on the Red Planet's surface as images are posted almost in real time right on YouTube. Starting at 5 p.m. BST on Friday, the agency's Mars Express orbiter would broadcast the latest photos every 50 seconds as it hangs more than 11,000 miles above the Martian surface.

On Friday, the first-ever live images of Mars is expected on Earth. Using the Mars Express orbiter, the European Space Agency will film never-before-seen photographs of the Martian planet. There are only a few notable instances on Earth where humans have seen live images or videos from space, including NASA's DART mission, which crashed a probe into a moonlet and the Apollo missions.