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KSC-01pp0744
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Smoke clouds pour across the ground as the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft leaps into the clear blue sky. Liftoff occurred at 11:02 a.m. EDT. The launch sends the Mars Odyssey on an approximate 7-month journey to orbit the planet Mars. The spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will map the Martian surface looking for geological features that could indicate the presence of water, now or in the past.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-01pp0744. NASA/KSC, 2001-04-07. Public domain. ID: KSC-01pp0744.