NASA Announces Curiosity Rover Media Events Schedule

MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 PHONE 818-354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

DC Agle / Guy Webster 818-393-9011 / 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle@jpl.nasa.gov / guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov

Steve Cole 202-358-0918
Headquarters, Washington
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov

News release: 2012-247a Aug. 19, 2012

NASA Announces Curiosity Rover Media Events Schedule

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-247&cid=release_2010-247

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA will host several media teleconferences and/or news conferences to provide Curiosity rover mission updates in the coming weeks.

The next scheduled media telecons are: Tuesday, Aug. 21 and Thursday, Aug. 23, both at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT).

PLEASE NOTE: All events are subject to change. The Mars Curiosity team is operating on Mars time (the Martian day is 40 minutes longer than an Earth day), so all events are scheduled based on team availability. Details and updates of event times will be posted as they become available.

Audio of media telecons is streamed live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl . Visuals will be available at the start of each telecon at: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon .

For teleconference dial-in information, reporters must send their name, media affiliation and phone number to Elena Mejia at elena.mejia@jpl.nasa.gov or call the JPL Media Relations Office at 818-354-5011.

Televised news conferences are broadcast live on NASA TV and online at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .

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

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity mission for NASA .

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