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NASA to Host Curiosity Rover Teleconference Aug. 17 Jet Propulsion Laboratory August 16, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT), Friday, Aug. 17, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are checking out Curiosity's subsystems and 10 instruments. Curiosity is in the opening days of a two-year mission to investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life and preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life. Mission team members are "living" on Mars time. A Martian day is approximately 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, meaning team members start their shift 40 minutes later each day. The scheduling of this teleconference and other Curiosity media events is determined by their availability. Audio of the event will be streamed live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio . Visuals will be available at the start of the teleconference at: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon . For more information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl . DC Agle / Guy Webster 818-393-9011 / 818-354-6278 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. [email protected] / [email protected] Stephen Cole 202-358-0918 NASA Headquarters, Washington [email protected] 2012-244b ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
