NASA Hosts Teleconference Today About Curiosity Rover

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

Guy Webster/Elena Mejia 818-354-5011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Dwayne Brown 202-358-0918
NASA Headquarters, Washington
Dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

Advisory: 2013-065b Feb. 20, 2013

NASA Hosts Teleconference Today About Curiosity Rover

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-065&cid=release_2013-065

PASADENA, Calif. – NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. EST) today, Feb. 20, to provide an update on the Mars rover Curiosity mission. Earlier today, Curiosity engineers confirmed the rover had collected the first-ever sample from inside a rock on Mars.

The Mars Science Laboratory project and its Curiosity rover are investigating whether conditions on Mars have ever been favorable for microbial life.

Audio and visuals of the event will be streamed live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .

Visuals will be available at the start of the teleconference at: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon .

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

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