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Mars Polar Lander / Kennedy Space Center / Photographic Timeline
Subcue testing event. Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and
Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2) lift the Mars Polar Lander to move it to a
spin table for testing. The lander, which will be launched on Jan. 3, 1999, is
a solar-powered spacecraft designed to touch down on the Martian surface near
the northern-most boundary of the south pole in order to study the water cycle
there. The lander also will help scientists learn more about climate change
and current resources on Mars, studying such things as frost, dust, water
vapor and condensates in the Martian atmosphere. |