NASA Briefing to Preview Upcoming Mission to Jupiter

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DC Agle 818-393-9011
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Trent Perrotto 202-358-0321
NASA Headquarters, Washington
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George Diller 321-867-2468
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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EVENT ADVISORY: 2011-225b July 22, 2011

NASA BRIEFING TO PREVIEW UPCOMING MISSION TO JUPITER

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-225b&cid=release_2011-225b

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will hold a news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) on
Wednesday, July 27, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss preparations for the
upcoming Juno mission to Jupiter. The briefing will be carried live on NASA Television and the
agency's website.

Juno, scheduled to launch Aug. 5, will improve our understanding of our solar system's beginnings by
revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Juno will get closer to Jupiter than any other spacecraft
and will provide images and the first detailed glimpse of its poles.

Briefing participants are:

-- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters,
Washington
-- Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
-- Jan Chodas, Juno project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Steve Levin, Juno project scientist, JPL
-- Kaelyn Badura, Pine Ridge High School, Deltona, Fla.; high school student, Juno Education
program participant and Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope Project participant

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about Juno, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/juno

Ustream will carry the briefing live with a chat box available at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Juno mission for
NASA.

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