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KSC-99pc07
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Looking like a Roman candle, the exhaust from the Boeing Delta II rocket with the Mars Polar Lander aboard lights up the clouds as it hurtles skyward. The rocket was launched 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.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-99pc07. NASA/KSC, 1999-01-03. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pc07.
