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Mars Bound
Featured on March 14, 2016
The latest Mars mission, the European ExoMars 2016, lifted off from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 14. The mission includes an orbiter that will study methane and other gases in the Martian atmosphere, and a small lander, which will operate for only a few days. [Stephane Corvaja/ESA]