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KSC-99pc03

NASA / KSC · 1999-01-03 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle lifts off with NASA's Mars Polar Lander into a cloud-covered sky at 3:21:10 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station. The lander is a solar-powered spacecraft designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south polar cap, which consists of carbon dioxide ice.

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Credit lineKSC-99pc03. NASA/KSC, 1999-01-03. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pc03.
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