[meteorite-list] NASA To Share Early Results From MAVEN Mars Orbiter

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4333

NASA Shares Early Results From MAVEN Mars Orbiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 10, 2014

NASA will host a news teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Tuesday, 
Oct. 14, to announce early science results from its Mars Atmosphere and 
Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission.

Launched in November 2013, the spacecraft entered orbit around Mars on 
Sept. 21, completing an interplanetary journey of 10 months and 442 million 
miles (711 million kilometers). MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted 
to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere to help scientists 
understand climate change over the Red Planet's history.

The teleconference participants are:

-- Elsayed Talaat, MAVEN program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington

-- Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator at the Laboratory for Atmospheric 
and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder)

-- Mike Chaffin, Remote Sensing Team member at CU-Boulder

-- Justin Deighan, Remote Sensing Team member at CU-Boulder

-- Davin Larson, Solar Energetic Particles instrument lead at the University 
of California, Berkeley

For dial-in information, media should email their name, affiliation and 
telephone number to Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

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

http://www.nasa.gov/maven

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

Nancy Jones / Bill Steigerwald
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039 / 301-286-5017
nancy.n.jones at nasa.gov / william.a.steigerwald at nasa.gov

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

2014-350