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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — On Pad 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, a solid rocket booster is raised to a vertical position for mating with the Delta II rocket carrying the Mars Polar Lander. The rocket will be used to launch the Mars Polar Lander on Jan. 3, 1999. The lander is a solar-powered spacecraft designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south pole in order to study the water cycle there.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-98pc1824. NASA/KSC, 1998-12-02. Public domain. ID: KSC-98pc1824.
