NASA Invites Social Media Fans to Mars Landing Event

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Jason C. Townsend 202-358-0359
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News release: 2012-153 June 5, 2012

NASA Invites Social Media Fans to Mars Landing Event

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-153&cid=release_2012-153

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a 3-day NASA Social for 25 of its social media followers
Aug. 3-5 at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The NASA Social is scheduled
to culminate in the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover at Mars' Gale crater. The
landing is anticipated at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6).

The event will offer people who engage with NASA through Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other
social networks the opportunity to tour JPL, speak with scientists and engineers, participate in news
conferences and, if all goes as planned, be at the media site when the first signal of the rover's landing
is detected by JPL mission control. The event also will provide participants the opportunity to interact
with fellow tweeps, space enthusiasts and members of NASA's social media team.

During the two-year prime mission, Curiosity will investigate whether the selected area of Mars
offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life or if evidence of it existed.

JPL has 23 spacecraft and 10 instruments conducting active missions of exploration of Earth, the
solar system and the universe beyond. These ventures, including Voyager, Cassini and the
Opportunity Mars rover, are enabled by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). Managed by JPL, the
DSN is an international network of antenna complexes for communications between spacecraft and
Earth-based teams that guide them. NASA Social guests will meet team members from some of these
missions and tour DSN mission control.

NASA Social registration opens at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) Wednesday, June 6, and closes at 9 a.m.
PDT (noon EDT Friday, June 8). NASA will randomly select 25 participants from online
registrations.

For more information and rules pertaining to NASA Social registration, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/social

For information about connecting and collaborating with NASA, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/connect

For more information about JPL, visit:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

To follow the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity mission via Facebook and Twitter, visit:
http://www.facebook.com/MarsCuriosity
http://www.twitter.com/MarsCuriosity

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