[meteorite-list] NASA To Release MESSENGER's First Orbital Imagesof Mercury

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Subject: [meteorite-list] NASA To Release MESSENGER's First Orbital Images
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March 28, 2011

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

Paulette Campbell 
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 
240-228-6792 
paulette.campbell at jhuapl.edu   


MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-069

NASA TO RELEASE MESSENGER'S FIRST ORBITAL IMAGES OF MERCURY 
MEDIA TELECONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR 2 P.M. EDT WEDNESDAY

WASHINGTON -- NASA will release the first orbital image of Mercury's 
surface, including previously unseen terrain, on Tuesday afternoon, 
March 29. Several other images will be available Wednesday, March 30, 
in conjunction with a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss 
these initial orbital images taken from the first spacecraft to orbit 
Mercury. 

NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, 
or MESSENGER, entered orbit March 17 after completing more than a 
dozen laps within the inner solar system during the past 6.6 years. 

Media teleconference participants are: 
-- Sean Solomon, MESSENGER principal investigator, Carnegie 
Institution of Washington 
-- Eric Finnegan, MESSENGER mission systems engineer, Johns Hopkins 
University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel. Md. 

To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact Dwayne 
Brown at dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov or 202-358-1726 for dial-in 
instructions. 

For MESSENGER information and images, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/messenger 

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

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio   
	
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