[meteorite-list] NASA to Announce Mars 2020 Rover Instruments

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-248  

NASA to Announce Mars 2020 Rover Instruments
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 30, 2014

ISSUED BY NASA HEADQUARTERS

NASA will announce on Thursday, July 31, the instruments that will be
carried aboard the agency's Mars 2020 mission, a roving laboratory based
on the highly successful Curiosity rover. The announcement will air live
at noon EDT on NASA Television and on the agency's website.

The announcement will take place in the NASA TV studio at NASA
Headquarters, 300 E Street SW in Washington. The announcement
participants are:

-- John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for the NASA
Science Mission Directorate, Headquarters, Washington

-- Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the NASA Human
Exploration and Operations Directorate, Headquarters

-- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, Headquarters

-- Ellen Stofan, NASA chief scientist, Headquarters

NASA received 58 proposals in January for science and exploration
technology instruments to fly onboard the Mars 2020 mission, two times
the average number of proposals submitted for instrument competitions in
the recent past and an indicator of the extraordinary interest in
exploration of the Red Planet.

Media can ask questions from participating NASA locations, or by
telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must contact Steve Cole at
202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole at nasa.gov and provide their media
affiliation by 11 a.m. Thursday.

There also is limited seating in the NASA TV studio for media who would
like to attend in person. To arrange access, media must email
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov by no later than 9 a.m. Thursday.

Media and the public can join the conversation using #JourneyToMars, and
ask questions using #askNASA.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information about NASA's Mars 2020 mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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