CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:02 a.m. EST Nov. 26. MSL's components include a car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source. For more information, visit <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.nasa.gov/msl">http://www.nasa.gov/msl</a>.
Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Rick Wetherington
2011-11-26
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