Mars 2020 Post-launch News Conference

Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director, NASA Headquarters, participates in a Mars 2020 post-launch news conference at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 30, 2020. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. EDT, carrying the agency’s Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.

Date

2020-07-30

Photographer / author

NASA/Kim Shiflett

Collection

KSC

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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