[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts Sept. 19 Teleconference About Mars Curiosity Rover Progress

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:13:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201209181913.q8IJDhGS026378_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Sept. 18, 2012

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

DC Agle / Guy Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011 / 818-354-6278
agle at jpl.nasa.gov / guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-185

NASA HOSTS SEPT. 19 TELECONFERENCE ABOUT MARS CURIOSITY ROVER PROGRESS

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m.
PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, Sept. 19, to provide a status update
on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.

Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory, is 43 days into a two-year
mission to investigate whether conditions may have been favorable for
microbial life.

For teleconference dial-in information, reporters must send their
name, media affiliation and telephone number to Elena Mejia at
elena.mejia at jpl.nasa.gov or call NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Media Relations Office at 818-354-5011.

Audio and visuals of the event will be streamed live online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

and

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Visuals will be available at the start of the event at:

http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon

For information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mars

and

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl
        
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Received on Tue 18 Sep 2012 03:13:43 PM PDT