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'''Visual Monitoring Camera'''<ref>http://blogs.esa.int/vmc/faq/</ref> (or Video Monitoring Camera<ref>http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/mission_definition.pdf , p.3</ref>), also known as "Mars Webcam", is a small camera (65x60x108 mm) mounted on [[Mars Express]] spacecraft, with the unique purpose of monitoring [[Beagle 2]] deployment, happened on December 19th, 2003 at 8:31 UTC (9:31 CET).
After performing this task, VMC remained unused, having no scientific purposes.
Sometimes [[ESA]] started public campaigns inviting people to propose subjects to be shot by the camera, the last one planned for 25-27 may 2015<ref> VMC Imaging campaign 2015 - http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Have_you_ever_used_a_camera_on_board_an_interplanetary_spacecraft</ref>.
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