[meteorite-list] NASA TV Briefing Discusses Curiosity Rover Analysis of Mars Rock

[Ron Baalke]

March 07, 2013

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

DC Agle 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-393-9011 
agle at jpl.nasa.gov 


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-045

NASA TV BRIEFING DISCUSSES CURIOSITY ROVER ANALYSIS OF MARS ROCK

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, 
March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first 
sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars. 

The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA 
Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington. It will be broadcast live 
on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website. 

The participants will be: 
-- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA 
Headquarters, Washington 
-- John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist, California Institute 
of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 
-- David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity's Chemistry and 
Mineralogy investigation, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 
Calif. 
-- Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for Curiosity's Sample 
Analysis at Mars investigation, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, 
Greenbelt, Md. 

Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA 
centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must 
contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov by 
noon, March 12. 

During a two-year prime mission, researchers are using Curiosity's 10 
science instruments to assess whether the Gale Crater area on Mars 
ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. 

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, 
visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

The event will also be streamed live on Ustream at: 

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl 

More information about Curiosity is online at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/msl 

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

Follow Curiosity on Facebook and Twitter at: 

http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity 
and 

http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity 

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