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Credit & Copyright: John Kraus
Explanation:
On
Thursday
this snapshot from a small plane 5,000 feet
above Florida's Space Coast caught a rocket's trail rising into
the blue morning sky.
It was July's third launch of a
mission from planet Earth bound for Mars.
The Atlas V rocket left
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from Space Launch Complex 41
at 7:50am EDT carrying
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover.
The car-sized Perseverance
is headed for a landing at
Jezero
Crater on the Red Planet
in February 2021.
On board the sophisticated rover is the
Ingenuity
Mars Helicopter.
Mars 2020 Launch:
photos
from planet Earth
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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