NASA Hosts Teleconference About Curiosity Rover Progress

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Advisory: 2012-241b Aug. 13, 2012

NASA Hosts Teleconference About Curiosity Rover Progress

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-241&cid=release_2012-241

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on
Tuesday, Aug. 14, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale
Crater.

The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 10:31
p.m. PDT, Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT, Aug. 6). Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., spent last week beginning initial checks of Curiosity's 10
instruments and updating software for its two-year mission to investigate whether conditions
have been favorable for microbial life and preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life.

Audio of the event will be streamed live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio .
Visuals will be available at the start of the event at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/telecon/ .

For more information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mars and
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .

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