Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility begin to hoist the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft or MAVEN.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians begin to hoist the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, or MAVEN, so that it can be placed on the rotation fixture for further testing and prelaunch preparations next week.

MAVEN is being readied for its scheduled November launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to Mars. Positioned in an orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Chris Rhodes