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| Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls |
The MAVEN spacecraft launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:28 pm EST today. It's going to Mars to attempt to determine why Mar's atmosphere diminished to it's current state from what was believed to be its atmosphere of billions of years ago that was similar to Earth's current atmosphere. The trip to Mars will take 10 months and MAVEN will go into orbit around Mars in September 2014.
