President Obama to Call NASA's Mars Rover Team Today

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News release: 2012-240 Aug. 12, 2012

President Obama to Call NASA's Mars Rover Team Today

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-240&cid=release_2012-240

PASADENA, Calif. - President Barack Obama will congratulate members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) this morning.

Audio of the call and video of the JPL team's portion of the call will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website. It will also be streamed live to http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .

President Obama's call comes a week after Curiosity landed on the Red Planet. Curiosity carries the most advanced science payload ever used on Mars' surface. During the next two years, it will use its 10 instruments to investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life and for preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life.

Curiosity was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, which also is where the rover's mission control is located.

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

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

The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.

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