The European Space Agency is attempting to air the first livestream ever from Mars on Friday, marking the 20th anniversary of the agency's Mars Express mission.

The livestream is expected to feature new pictures from the red planet roughly every 50 seconds as the photos are beamed down directly from the Visual Monitoring Camera, or VMC, aboard the ESA’s Mars orbiter. The speed at which these photos will arrive marks a change from the three to 22 minutes it normally takes for the photos to arrive to Earth, according to ESA.

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However, the agency is not "100% certain" the feed will work, says James Godfrey, a spacecraft operations manager at ESA.

“This is an old camera, originally planned for engineering purposes, at a distance of almost [1.9 million miles] from Earth — this hasn’t been tried before, and to be honest, we’re not 100% certain it’ll work,” Godfrey said. “But I’m pretty optimistic. Normally, we see images from Mars and know that they were taken days before. I’m excited to see Mars as it is now — as close to a Martian ‘now’ as we can possibly get!"