Thank you to everyone who replied to the Doodle poll!

Friday, 22 May, 15:00GMT – 16:30 GMT appears to be the best time slot for the most VMC School campaign participants, so let’s go with that. Go ahead and block that slot in your calendars (as will the MEX team). We’ll post details here in the blog later this week on how to join the #ESAHangout and how to post questions.

Mars Express Spacecraft Operations Engineer Simon Wood adds that, by Friday at 15:00GMT, the command stack that will trigger the VMC observations during ‘your’ three orbits next week should already be on board Mars Express!