Sunday, November 17, 2013

T-Minus 15 Hours and Counting...

Here's hoping that 24 hours from now, the MAVEN spacecraft will be bathed in raw sunlight [as opposed to the xenon lights that are illuminating the Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station tonight (shown below)] as it heads to Mars following what will hopefully be a flawless launch come tomorrow morning (in terms of Pacific Time). I said it before and I'll say it again: Godspeed, MAVEN!

The Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars-bound MAVEN orbiter is illuminated by xenon lights at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on November 17, 2013.
NASA / Bill Ingalls

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