MAVEN Encapsulated Atop Atlas V
![At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft is encapsulated atop an Atlas V rocket.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5730_MAVEN_on_pad9-full2.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
November 18, 2013
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At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft is encapsulated atop an Atlas V rocket. At 37 and a half feet long and, when fully fueled, weighing 5,400-pounds, MAVEN is about the size of a family sport utility vehicle.