Stock Photo - 06/26/2001 __ Workers at Launch Complex 17_B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, watch as fairing moves into position around the Microwave Anisotropy Probe MAP spacecraft. MAP is scheduled for launch on June 30 aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The launch will place MAP into a lunar_assisted trajectory to the Sun_Earth for a 27_month mission. The probe will measure small fluctuations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation to an accuracy of one millionth of a degree. These measurements should reveal the size, matter content, age, geometry and fate of the universe. They will also reveal the primordial structure that grew to form galaxies and will test ideas about the origins of these primordial structures. The MAP instrument will be continuously shaded from the Sun, Earth, and Moon by the spacecraft

Stock Photo: 06/26/2001 -- Workers at Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, watch as fairing moves into position around the Microwave Anisotropy Probe MAP.

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