[meteorite-list] NASA To Discuss Curiosity Radiation Findings

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:58:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201305271758.r4RHw051007914_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

May 27, 2013

Trent J. Perrotto
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-085

NASA DISCUSSES CURIOSITY RADIATION FINDINGS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT
Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science
Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover
Curiosity.

The journal Science has embargoed details until 2 p.m. May 30.

The briefing participants are:

-- Donald M. Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director,
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio
-- Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, SwRI
-- Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA's Johnson
Space Center, Houston
-- Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems, NASA
Headquarters, Washington

For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their
name, affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at
trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov by noon May 30.

SwRI and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD
with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission
Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center,
Deutsches Zentrum f??r Luft- und Raumfahrt. NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project. NASA's
Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars
Exploration Program.

Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's
Mars Science Laboratory website at:

http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website
at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
        
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