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KSC-98pc1887
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Inside the gantry at Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft is lowered to mate it with the Boeing Delta II rocket that will launch it 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-98pc1887. NASA/KSC, 1998-12-21. Public domain. ID: KSC-98pc1887.
