[meteorite-list] NASA To Unveil Full-Frame Image Of Vesta At News Conference

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:17:23 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201107271617.p6RGHOQ6023951_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

July 27, 2011

Trent J. Perrotto
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0321
trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov

Priscilla Vega
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-1357
priscilla.r.vega at jpl.nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-157

NASA TO UNVEIL FULL-FRAME IMAGE OF VESTA AT NEWS CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference on Monday, Aug. 1, at 2
p.m. EDT, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's successful orbit insertion
around Vesta on July 15 and unveil the first full-frame images from
Dawn's framing camera. The news conference will be held in the Von
Karman auditorium at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 4800 Oak
Grove Dr., Pasadena, Calif. Journalists also may ask questions from
participating NASA locations or join by phone. To obtain dial-in
information, journalists must contact JPL's Media Relations Office at
818-354-5011 by 9 a.m. PDT on Aug. 1.

NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the event. It
also will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available,
at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

The news conference panelists are:
-- Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator, Science Mission
Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Charles Elachi, director, JPL
-- Marc Rayman, chief engineer and mission manager, JPL
-- Christopher Russell, Dawn principal investigator, University of
California, Los Angeles
-- Holger Sierks, framing camera team member, Max Planck Society,
Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
-- Enrico Flamini, chief scientist, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome,
Italy

Although Dawn is collecting some science data now, the mission's
intensive collection of information will begin in early August.
Observations of the giant asteroid Vesta will provide unprecedented
data to help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar
system. Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid in the main
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After spending one year
orbiting Vesta, Dawn will travel to a second destination, the dwarf
planet Ceres, and arrive there in February 2015.

For more information about Dawn, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/dawn

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
        
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