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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.<ref name="ESA">{{cite web |title=Mars Webcam: About |url=http://blogs.esa.int/vmc/about-the-mars-webcam/ |website=blogs.esa.int |publisher=[[European Space Agency]]}}</ref> The VMC is a camera-on-chip design, using the IRIS-1 system.<ref name="ESA" /> Originally used as engineering monitoring camera for the ''[[Beagle 2]]'' lander, it has a wide 40° [[field of view]] and limited imaging controls and it has no focus mechanism.<ref name="ESA" /> In 2016, it was used for professional science in addition to its roles as a technical monitoring camera and public outreach.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mars Webcam goes pro |url=http://esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Mars_Webcam_goes_pro |website=esa.int |publisher=[[European Space Agency]] |date=25 May 2016}}</ref>
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{{As of|2017|10}}, more than 21,000 images had been returned.<ref name="esa20171017">{{cite web |url=https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Webcam_on_Mars_Express_surveys_high-altitude_clouds |title=Webcam on Mars Express surveys high-altitude clouds |publisher=European Space Agency |first1=Agustin |last1=Sánchez-Lavega |first2=Dmitri |last2=Titov |first3=Markus |last3=Bauer |date=17 October 2017 |accessdate=28 July 2018}}</ref> New images are published to the camera's Flickr account in a fully automated process as they are received from the spacecraft,<ref name="planetary20121219">{{cite web |url=http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/12190600-mars-express-vmc.html |title=Mars Express VMC resumes raw data posting |publisher=[[The Planetary Society]] |first=Emily |last=Lakdawalla |date=19 December 2012 |accessdate=10 November 2016}}</ref> sometimes in as little as 75 minutes from when the photograph was taken at Mars.<ref name="esa20171017" /> All images produced by the VMC are released under a [[Creative Commons]] Attribution/ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO).<ref name="flickr">{{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/people/esa_marswebcam/ |title=VMC The Mars Webcam |work=Flickr.com |accessdate=10 November 2016}}</ref>
On June 3, 2023, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ''Mars Express'', a [[livestream]] of images from the camera was streamed online, which was the first livestream direct from Mars.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tune in for first Mars livestream |url=https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Tune_in_for_first_Mars_livestream |access-date=2023-06-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Technical specifications ==
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