[meteorite-list] Tweetup At NASA's JPL Previews Missions To Mars, Jupiter And More

[Ron Baalke]

April 21, 2011

Stephanie L. Schierholz 
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-4997 
stephanie.schierholz at nasa.gov 

Veronica McGregor 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-354-9452 
veronica.c.mcgregor at jpl.nasa.gov   


RELEASE: 11-122

TWEETUP AT NASA'S JPL PREVIEWS MISSIONS TO MARS, JUPITER AND MORE

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 
Pasadena, Calif., will host a Tweetup for approximately 120 Twitter 
followers on Monday, June 6. 

With four space missions launching this year and an asteroid belt 
encounter nearly underway, 2011 will be one of the busiest ever in 
planetary exploration. Tweetup participants will interact with JPL 
scientists and engineers about these upcoming missions: Aquarius, to 
study ocean salinity; Grail, to study the moon's gravity field; Juno 
to Jupiter; and the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity rover. 
Participants also will learn about the Dawn mission and its upcoming 
encounter with the asteroid Vesta. 

The Tweetup will include a tour of JPL, robotics demonstrations and a 
last chance to see the Curiosity rover before it ships to Florida to 
prepare for a November launch. Tour stops will include the Spacecraft 
Assembly Facility where Curiosity is under construction, the mission 
control center of NASA's Deep Space Network, and JPL's new Earth 
Science Visitor Center. 

Tweetup participants also will mingle with fellow attendees and the 
staff behind the tweets on @NASA, @NASAJPL, @MarsRovers, 
@AsteroidWatch and more. 

Registration for the event opens at noon PDT on Tuesday, April 26, and 
it closes at noon on Wednesday, April 27. For more information about 
the Tweetup and to sign up, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/tweetup   

NASA Television will broadcast portions of the Tweetup on June 6 at: 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv   

and 

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 

Find all the ways to connect and collaborate with NASA at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/connect 

For more information about JPL, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl   
	
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