[NonValueAdded]

Countdown in progress to a 10 minute programmed hold at T-4. Launch on track to a 01:28 PM ET launch. Mission status center: here

[NonValueAdded]

Brevard County, Florida LAUNCH ALERT ping.

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[DoodleDawg]

...mission dedicated to studying the Martian atmosphere, aiming to solve the puzzle of how Mars dried up and lost its life-supporting atmosphere eons ago

So it's going to study an atmosphere that doesn't exist anymore?

[qam1]

Yawn. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Mars has no magnetic field so the solar wind blew the atmosphere off over millions of years. So what’s the purpose of spending billions on this thing to find out what we already know?

Mars is a boring dead rusted rock, after this probe it will still be a boring dead rusted rock. Can we please go somewhere better like the moons of the outer gas giants?

[NonValueAdded]

Go for launch! Count to restart at 1:24 ET

[Farnsworth]

Watching at space.com On a 10 minute hold at 4 minutes, final checks

[Brown Deer]

Is 0bama going back to Mars again?

[Arrowhead1952]

Did they send Sheila Jackson-Lee (D) TX., on the mission to find the flag the astronauts put there years ago??

[Jack Hydrazine]

Videos of launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKdLfOibTTg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz7Iue_J0YA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxGGc-mCwYg

Multiple camera angles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELSS3mhUHSU

Earth/Mars orbit simulator
http://www.windows2universe.org/mars/mars_orbit.html

[Ezekiel]

Liftoff* of the MAVEN spacecraft from Cape Canaveral...

You can't make this stuff up ping.

* 05375 nasa' {naw-saw'} or nacah (Ps 4 : 6 [7]) {naw-saw'}

a primitive root; TWOT - 1421; v
AV - (bare, lift, etc...) up 219, bear 115, take 58, bare 34, carry 30, (take, carry)..away 22, borne 22, armourbearer 18, forgive 16, accept 12, exalt 8, regard 5, obtained 4, respect 3, misc 74; 654

1) to lift, bear up, carry, take
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to lift, lift up
1a2) to bear, carry, support, sustain, endure
1a3) to take, take away, carry off, forgive
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be lifted up, be exalted
1b2) to lift oneself up, rise up
1b3) to be borne, be carried
1b4) to be taken away, be carried off, be swept away
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to lift up, exalt, support, aid, assist
1c2) to desire, long (fig.)
1c3) to carry, bear continuously
1c4) to take, take away
1d) (Hithpael) to lift oneself up, exalt oneself
1e) (Hiphil)
1e1) to cause one to bear (iniquity)
1e2) to cause to bring, have brought