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From the KSC news webpage "Hot Pics" section:

(04/01/2005) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – At the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip, workers prepare the transporter for the Lockheed Martin Atlas V booster segment for the journey to Atlas Space Operations Center. The Atlas V, designated AV-007, is the launch vehicle for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The MRO is designed for a series of global mapping, regional survey and targeted observations from a near-polar, low-altitude Mars orbit. These observations will be unprecedented in terms of the spatial resolution and coverage achieved by the orbiter’s instruments as they observe the atmosphere and surface of Mars while probing its shallow subsurface as part of a “follow the water” strategy.

The Centaur upper stage has arrived also.

MRO itself should arrive later this month.

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