[meteorite-list] NASA to Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference

[Ron Baalke]

June 06, 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: M13-094

NASA TO HOST JUNE 7 MARS ROVER OPPORTUNITY TELECONFERENCE

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. 
PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the 
long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary 
of this rover's launch is next month. 

The briefing participants will be: 
-- John Callas, project manager for Opportunity, NASA's Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
-- Steve Squyres, principal investigator for Opportunity, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N.Y. 
-- Ray Arvidson, deputy principal investigator, Washington University, 
St. Louis, Mo. 

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 818-393-5467. 

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

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

and 

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 

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

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/telecon/20130607.html 

For information about NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project and the 
twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/rovers 

and 

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov 
	
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