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Ice-digger blasts off to find life on Mars

Monday, 6 August 2007 Agençe France-Presse A Delta II rocket lit up the early morning sky over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as it carried the Phoenix spacecraft on the first leg of its journey to Mars. The powerful three-stage rocket with nine solid rocket motors lifted off at 5:36am local time. Image: NASA