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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A trio of panelists awaits the start of a post-launch news conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the successful launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. From left are Pete Theisinger, MSL project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.; John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena; and Doug McCuisition, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters. MSL lifted off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:02 a.m. EST Nov. 26. MSL's components include a car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

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