Russia-Europe rocket blasts off on mission seeking life on Mars
Russia`s Proton rocket carrying the spacecraft launched into an overcast sky at the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppe at 0931 GMT according to plan.
Mar 14, 2016, 16:05 PM ISTCountdown begins to launch mission to find life on Mars
Named "ExoMars 2016", the ESA-Roscosmos mission is set to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Russian Proton rocket at around 3 p.m., marking the start of a seven-month journey to the Red Planet.