NASA to Host June 5 Teleconference on Curiosity Mars Rover

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
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News release: 2013-185 Jun. 3, 2013

NASA to Host June 5 Teleconference on Curiosity Mars Rover

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-185&cid=release_2013-185

PASADENA, Calif. – NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 5 to provide an update about the Mars Science Laboratory mission and activities of the Curiosity rover.

The briefing participants will be:

-- Jim Erickson, Mars Science Laboratory project manager, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Joy Crisp, Mars Science Laboratory deputy project scientist, JPL
-- Joe Melko, Mars Science Laboratory sampling activity lead, JPL

The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is approximately 10 months into a two-year prime mission to investigate the environmental history of an area inside Mars' Gale Crater, where it has already found evidence of ancient environmental conditions 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 posted at the start of the event at: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon .

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

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