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                                2020 July 31
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                          Mars 2020 from 5,000 Feet
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]John Kraus

   Explanation: [5]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 [6]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
   [7]NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. The [8]car-sized Perseverance
   is headed for a landing at [9]Jezero Crater on the Red Planet in
   February 2021. On board the sophisticated rover is the [10]Ingenuity
   Mars Helicopter.

               Mars 2020 Launch: [11]photos from planet Earth
                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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   5. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-ula-launch-mars-2020-perseverance-rover-mission-to-red-planet
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