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Apart from @gvdhoorn's answer, a couple of things to take care of are:

The pose header's frame_id must be a valid TF frame. I've been using robot = moveit_commander.RobotCommander(); pose_Ground.header.frame_id = robot.get_planning_frame().
In RViz, add the PlanningScene panel and enable it.

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