TAMPA, FLORIDA: NASA counted down on Saturday to the long-awaited launch of its latest Mars lander, InSight, designed to perch on the surface of the Red Planet and listen for “Marsquakes.”

The spacecraft was scheduled to blast off atop an Atlas V rocket at 4:05 a.m. Pacific time (1105 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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