[Atlas V] Launch Multiple Angles of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft to Mars on Atlas V Rocket

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View of launch from the many cameras stationed around Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center.

An Atlas V rocket successfully launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral today at 18:28 UTC carrying NASA's latest Spacecraft to Mars - MAVEN. The Atlas V rocket was in the 401 configuration - the most basic with no solid rocket motors. Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) will orbit Mars and try figure out what happened to the water in the Mars atmosphere.

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