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NASA To Announce Major Mars Rover Finding
Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington March 22, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1547) Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-5011) NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-044 NASA ANNOUNCES MAJOR MARS ROVER FINDING NASA will announce a major scientific finding at a Space Science Update (SSU) Tuesday at 2 p.m. EST, in the headquarters Webb Auditorium, 300 E St. SW, Washington. The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is exploring the martian Meridiani Planum and recently discovered evidence rocks at the landing site have been altered by water. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will make opening remarks. SSU panelists: --Dr. Ed Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science --Prof. Steve Squyres, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and MER Principal Investigator --Prof. John Grotzinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, and a MER Co-investigator --Dr. Dave Rubin, U.S. Geological Survey Sedimentologist at the Pacific Science Center in Santa Cruz, Calif. --Dr. Jim Garvin, NASA Lead Scientist for Mars and the Moon, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters The SSU will be carried live on NASA TV with two-way question- and-answer capability for reporters covering the event from participating NASA centers. NASA TV is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. For audio only of the broadcast call: 321/867-1220/1240/1260. For a live webcast of the briefing and information about NASA TV on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv -end- |
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NASA To Announce Major Mars Rover Finding
"jonathan" wrote in message ... NASA ANNOUNCES MAJOR MARS ROVER FINDING NASA will announce a major scientific finding at a Space Science Update (SSU) Tuesday at 2 p.m. EST, in the headquarters Webb Auditorium, 300 E St. SW, Washington. The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is exploring the martian Meridiani Planum and recently discovered evidence rocks at the landing site have been altered by water. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...ws/8257168.htm |
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NASA To Announce Major Mars Rover Finding
"George Dishman" wrote in message ... "jonathan" wrote in message ... NASA ANNOUNCES MAJOR MARS ROVER FINDING NASA will announce a major scientific finding at a Space Science Update (SSU) Tuesday at 2 p.m. EST, in the headquarters Webb Auditorium, 300 E St. SW, Washington. The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is exploring the martian Meridiani Planum and recently discovered evidence rocks at the landing site have been altered by water. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...ws/8257168.htm Forgive my ignorance...why is this such a major breakthrough compared to the findings of recent weeks? -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
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NASA To Announce Major Mars Rover Finding
"BenignVanilla" a écrit dans le message de ... Forgive my ignorance...why is this such a major breakthrough compared to the findings of recent weeks? Because this means that the mission was sucessful in its planed objective (finding water), and the size of the team can be reduced by one third, as has been already decided. Hopefully the machines will stop working soon. This would mean even greter savings. The problem with NASA is that they send machines that work, and refuse to die. This is very expensive in ground team salaries and expenses. Remember the Galileo probe that lasted and lasted and costed a fortune? Happily there was some reason to precipitate it into Jupiter to get rid of it. They wanted to cut it much earlier, but the outcry was too strong. There was fuel and all systems were go, horiible. The team did several extended missions. This time, things have changed. After closing down Hubble, Mr O'Keefe wants to continue his brilliant work. |
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