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Mars-Bound MAVEN at the Launch Pad

MAVEN at launch pad. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Two days before the scheduled launch, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft sits at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Two days before the scheduled launch tp Mars, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft rolled out of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls