ExoMars Spacecraft Seen on Its Way to Mars!

Well, this is pretty dang cool: The ExoMars spacecraft, which successfully launched on March 14, was spotted by telescopes on its way to the Red Planet! That animation consists of a series of short exposures taken at the Observatório Astronômico do Sertão de Itaparica in Brazil just a few hours after launch. It shows the spacecraft itself (the brightest object) moving across the stars (which are smeared out a bit since the telescope was tracking on ExoMars), and its followed by several objec...