Engineers and technicians use a crane to place the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution stand for further pre-flight processing.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians use a crane to place the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft on a tilt and rotation stand for further pre-flight processing.

MAVEN is being prepared for its scheduled launch in November from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Positioned in an orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail. For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/maven/main/index.html Photo credit: NASA/ Charisse Nahser