[meteorite-list] NASA TV Briefing Discusses Curiosity Rover Analysis of Mars Rock

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:29:14 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201303072129.r27LTEZZ022163_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

March 07, 2013

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011
agle at jpl.nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-045

NASA TV BRIEFING DISCUSSES CURIOSITY ROVER ANALYSIS OF MARS ROCK

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday,
March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first
sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.

The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA
Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington. It will be broadcast live
on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website.

The participants will be:
-- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA
Headquarters, Washington
-- John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity's Chemistry and
Mineralogy investigation, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field,
Calif.
-- Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for Curiosity's Sample
Analysis at Mars investigation, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md.

Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA
centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must
contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov by
noon, March 12.

During a two-year prime mission, researchers are using Curiosity's 10
science instruments to assess whether the Gale Crater area on Mars
ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

The event will also be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

More information about Curiosity is online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/msl

and
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

Follow Curiosity on Facebook and Twitter at:

http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity
and

http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity

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Received on Thu 07 Mar 2013 04:29:14 PM PST