NASA teleconference on Curiosity, December 8

m14-195_0NASA will host a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PST (noon EST), Monday, Dec. 8, to discuss geological observations made by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio, visuals for the teleconference will be posted at the start of the event at: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon, the teleconference and visuals will be streamed together at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl.

Briefing participants will be:

Michael Meyer, Mars Exploration Program lead scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington
Sanjeev Gupta, Curiosity science team member at Imperial College in London
John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California
Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California

Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012 in a crater 96 miles (154 kilometers) in diameter, dubbed Gale Crater. Researchers have since been using the rover to investigate the Red Planet to determine current environmental conditions and hunt for clues about the environments of ancient Mars. The rover currently is examining geological layers at the base of a layered mountain in the middle of the crater…. [See link for more details]

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