Photo Gallery: Atlas rocket launches Juno

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 at 12:25 p.m. EDT to propel NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno space probe on its five-year, 1.8-billion-mile trek to orbit the solar system's largest planet.

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Photo credit: Pat Corkery/United Launch Alliance