NASA Hosts Telecon About Rover en Route to Mars Landing

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Advisory: 2012-162 June 7, 2012

NASA Hosts Teleconference About Rover en Route to Mars Landing

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-162&cid=release_2012-162

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on June
11, to provide a status update on the Aug. 5, 2012, landing of the most advanced rover ever to be sent
to Mars.

NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, will land near the
Martian equator at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, (1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6).

Panelists include:
-- Dave Lavery, MSL program executive, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters
-- Pete Theisinger, MSL project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

Audio of the event will be streamed live online at http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio .

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

For more information about the mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl .

The public can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at
http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

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