# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/g5yKhzoaCu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11740575-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2013-11-19T16:26:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Taking flight at Cape Canaveral! NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft launches aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA’s Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The one-year mission begins in September 2014, when the spacecraft reaches Mars orbit. 
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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nasa, space, maven2mars, countdown, 321, launchpad, maven, science, ula, planets, rocket, launch, solarsystem, martian, rocketlaunch

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