[meteorite-list] NASA To Discuss Curiosity Radiation Findings

[Ron Baalke]

May 27, 2013

Trent J. Perrotto 
Headquarters, Washington                               
202-358-1100 
trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-085

NASA DISCUSSES CURIOSITY RADIATION FINDINGS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT 
Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science 
Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover 
Curiosity. 

The journal Science has embargoed details until 2 p.m. May 30. 

The briefing participants are: 

-- Donald M. Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director, 
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio 
-- Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, SwRI 
-- Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA's Johnson 
Space Center, Houston 
-- Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems, NASA 
Headquarters, Washington 

For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their 
name, affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at 
trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov by noon May 30. 

SwRI and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD 
with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission 
Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center, 
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt. NASA's Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in 
Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project. NASA's 
Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars 
Exploration Program. 

Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's 
Mars Science Laboratory website at: 

http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon 

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

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 
	
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