Aug 16 2011

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-170 NASA HOSTS NEWS BRIEFING ABOUT TRACKING SPACE WEATHER EVENTS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 18, to discuss new details about the structure of solar storms and the impact they have on Earth. The new information comes from NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft and other NASA probes. The briefing will take place in NASA Headquarters' James E. Webb Auditorium, located at 300 E St. SW in Washington, and will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. The briefing panelists are: -- Madhulika Guhathakurta, STEREO program scientist, NASA Headquarters -- Craig DeForest, staff scientist, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo. -- David Webb, research physicist, Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College -- Alysha Reinard, research scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado, Boulder

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