November 5, 2014
NASA to Discuss Science Findings of Oct. 19 Comet Flyby of Mars
NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST on Friday, Nov. 7, to
provide initial science observations of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring's
close flyby of Mars and the impact on the Martian atmosphere.
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and a radar instrument aboard the European
Space Agencyâs Mars Express spacecraft provided the first close-up studies
of the comet that originated from the distant outer reaches of our solar
system.
Briefing participants include:
- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters,
Washington
- Nick Schneider, instrument lead for MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet
Spectrograph, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Mehdi Benna, instrument scientist for MAVEN's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass
Spectrometer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt. Maryland
- Don Gurnett, co-investigator on the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and
Ionosphere Sounding instrument on Mars Express, University of Iowa, Iowa City
- Alan Delamere, co-investigator for MRO's HiRISE instrument, Delamere
Support Services, Boulder, Colorado
For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name,
affiliation and telephone number to Dwayne Brown at [email protected]
by 11 a.m. Friday.
Visuals will be posted at the start of the event at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mars/telecon
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
The event will also be streamed, with visuals used by the participants at:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
For more information about Comet Siding Spring, visit:
http://mars.nasa.gov/comets/sidingspring
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Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
[email protected]
Preston Dyches/Guy Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-7013/818-354-5011
[email protected] /[email protected]
Nancy Neal Jones/Elizabeth Zubritsky
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039/301-614-5438
[email protected] /[email protected]
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