A UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lifts off from Launch Complex 41at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday. The rocket will deliver a science laboratory to Mars to study potential habitable environments on the planet.

A UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lifts off from Launch Complex 41at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday. The rocket will deliver a science laboratory to Mars to study potential habitable environments on the planet.

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