Aug 3 2011

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY: 11-159 NASA ANNOUNCES NEWS BRIEFING ON MARS ORBITER SCIENCE FINDING Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EDT on Aug. 4

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 2 p.m. EDT about a significant new Mars science finding. The briefing will be held in the NASA Headquarters James E. Webb Auditorium, 300 E St. SW in Washington. The new finding is based on observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006. MRO is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The briefing panelists are: - Philip Christensen, geophysicist, Arizona State University, Tempe - Colin Dundas, research geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz. - Alfred McEwen, planetary geologist, University of Arizona, Tucson - Michael Meyer, Mars Exploration Program lead scientist, NASA Headquarters - Lisa Pratt, biogeochemist, Indiana University, Bloomington

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