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image credit & copyright: John Kraus




on july 30, 2020, this snapshot from a small plane 1500 m above Florida's Space Coast caught a rocket's trail rising into the blue morning sky

it was july's third launch of a mission from planet Earth bound for Mars

the Atlas V rocket left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from Space Launch Complex 41 at 7:50 am EDT carrying NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover

the car-sized Perseverance is headed for a landing at Jezero Crater on the Red Planet in february 2021

on board the sophisticated rover is the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
























































in apod.nasa.gov/apod