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Damien Henderson, USA TODAY A heated confrontation between a Florida sheriff's deputy and an Orlando police officer was caught on a body cam after the deputy pulled the officer over for allegedly speeding in a marked police SUV. The officer sped off and was later arrested. According to a Seminole County Sheriff's Office report, a deputy on routine patrol stopped Orlando Police Officer Alexander Shaouni on June 6 at 12:15 p.m. local time for driving nearly twice the speed limit along a stretch of road. During the stop, footage shows Shaouni, 35, dressed in police uniform driving a marked Orlando Police Department SUV. "What?" Shaouni asks the deputy after stepping out of the police cruiser. "I am going into work, my man. Why are you trying to pull me over?" "Because you’re going 80 in a 45," the deputy responds. When asked for his driver's license in the video, Shaouni responded "No" then got back in the police SUV and left the scene with the cruiser's flashing lights on. When the deputy said he first clocked Shaouni speeding, the arrest report says, the vehicle's emergency flashing lights were not activated. On Tuesday, the Orlando Police Department told USA TODAY the agency was notified by the sheriff's office Friday about Shaouni being criminally charged. "Officer Shaouni has been relieved of duty pending the Seminole County Sheriff's criminal investigation and OPD's Internal Affairs investigation," the department released in a statement. OPD declined to release addition...

When a mission to Mars reaches 20 years of service, that’s definitely reason to celebrate. ESA’s Mars Express celebrated by airing the first-ever livestream of images, sent directly from the The animated gif, above, was created from all the images that came down during that hour, roughly 50 seconds apart from each other. There’s a short break in the middle of the animation because of an unexpected rainstorm at ESA’s ground station in Cebreros, Spain, where telemetry wasn’t able to be received. The video from the livestream from Mars on June 2, 2023. The fact that this camera is still working after 20 years, plus that engineers figured out how to make the livestream happen is something to celebrate as well. The VMC was originally only supposed to be an engineering camera that only had one, short-lived job in December of 2003: monitoring the deployment of the Beagle 2 lander. The camera only got one shot of Beagle 2, and after it successfully deployed, the lander, Remove All Ads on Universe Today Join our Patreon for as little as $3! Get the ad-free experience for life Bye bye Beagle 2 – The only Visual Monitoring Camera image of the descending lander (ESA) But VMC was an excellent camera and with such an asset on board, mission engineers turned it on again. They found that because of its unique location on the spacecraft, it could, for example, capture crescent images of Mars that are not obtainable from Earth. Plus, its wide field of view also provides global images of Mar...

The Visual Monitoring Camera ( VMC), Video Monitoring Camera Mars Webcam, is a small camera mounted on Starting in 2007, the VMC was used for the Mars Webcam project, where it takes global views of Mars at a high cadence and they are posted online. History [ ] The camera was included on the Mars Express mission with the singular goal of monitoring the deployment of the The VMC was adopted as a science instrument in early 2016, in a collaboration between ESA and the 's Planetary Sciences Group. This collaboration will conduct a two-year study of the images returned by VMC, which provide a global view of the planet and allow for the study of planetary phenomena, including changes in the ice caps, dust storms and cloud activity. The European Space Agency occasionally establishes campaigns inviting people to propose targets to be imaged by the cameras, such as the event on 25–27 May 2015. As of October2017 On June 3, 2023, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mars Express, a Technical specifications [ ] Specifications of the VMC are: • • • Image size: 640×480 pixels • Pixel depth: 8 bits • • Approximate distance from Mars surface: 300–10,000km (190–6,210mi) • Calculated • Calculated • Mass: 430g (0.95lb) • Size: 65×60×108mm (2.6×2.4×4.3in) Observation targets [ ] Noted observations: • Beagle 2 • Mars • 2018 Martian dust storm See also [ ] • Notes [ ] • ^ a b blogs.esa.int. • Gimenez, A.; Lebreton, J-P.; Svedhem, H.; Tauber, J. (February 2002). (PDF). ESA Bulletin (109). • ^ a ...

An artist's impression of the Mars Express orbiter, superimposed over a photo of Mars taken by the spacecraft's High Resolution Stereo Camera. (Image credit: ESA) Mars Express launched with a lander called Beagle 2 on June 2, 2003. The duo arrived in orbit around the Red Planet on Christmas Day of that year. Beagle 2touched down on Mars that same day but never phoned home, apparently because one or more of its four solar panels failed to deploy properly and ended up Mars Express, however, got up and running as planned, studying the Red Planet in detail with seven different science instruments. The orbiter has accomplished a great deal during its two decades away from Earth. For example, it detected methane in the The livestream will showcase images snapped by the probe's Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC), which was originally designed to monitor the separation of Beagle 2. Once it did that, the VMC was turned off — but it was turned back on in 2007 to snap imagery for education and outreach activities, and for science work as well. "We developed new, more sophisticated methods of operations and image processing, to get better results from the camera, turning it into Mars Express' eighth science instrument," VMC team member Jorge Hernández Bernal said in the same statement. — — — Mars Express team members have spent the last few months preparing for today's livestream — for instance, developing the tools needed to get the VMC photos online as soon as possible. Don't be surpris...