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KSC-98pc1867
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In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2), workers get ready to lift the heat shield for the Mars Polar Lander off the workstand before attaching it to the lander. Scheduled to be launched 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-98pc1867. NASA/KSC, 1998-12-14. Public domain. ID: KSC-98pc1867.
