[meteorite-list] NASA to Host June 5 Teleconference on Curiosity Mars Rover

[Ron Baalke]

June 3, 2013

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

Guy Webster 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-354-6278 
guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-091

NASA TO HOST JUNE 5 TELECONFERENCE ON CURIOSITY MARS ROVER

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11:30 
a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 5, to provide an update 
about the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission and activities of the 
Curiosity rover. 

The briefing participants will be: 

-- Jim Erickson, MSL project manager, NASA's Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
-- Joy Crisp, MSL deputy project scientist, JPL 
-- Joe Melko, MSL sampling activity lead, JPL 

The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is approximately 10 months into a 
two-year prime mission to investigate the environmental history of an 
area inside Mars' Gale Crater. Curiosity already has found evidence 
of ancient environmental conditions favorable for microbial life in 
the crater. 

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 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/msl 

and 

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