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KSC-98pc1886
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Mars Polar Lander spacecraft is lifted off the trailer of that transported it to the gantry at Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station. The lander, which will be launched aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket on Jan. 3, 1999, 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-98pc1886. NASA/KSC, 1998-12-21. Public domain. ID: KSC-98pc1886.
