From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov (by way of Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>)
Subject: Media Briefing on New Hubble Views of Mars Set for May 20
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 14:32:31 -0500
JUST ANNOUNCED!!
Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC May 15, 1997
(Phone: 202/358-1547)
Tammy Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-5566)
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410/338-4514)
Diane Ainsworth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-5011)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N97-34
MEDIA BRIEFING ON NEW HUBBLE VIEWS OF MARS SET FOR MAY 20
Dramatic new Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars clearly
showing atmospheric activity and weather changes important to
planners of two spacecraft nearing the red planet will be released
in a Space Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 20. The
Update will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St.
SW, Washington, DC, and will be carried live on NASA TV with two-
way Q & A capability for reporters covering from participating
NASA centers.
Panelists for the Space Science Update will be:
Dr. Ed Weiler, Hubble Space Telescope Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters
Dr. Phil James, University of Toledo, OH
Dr. Todd Clancy, Space Science Inst., Boulder, CO
Dr. Steve Lee, University of Colorado, Boulder
Matthew Golombeck, Mars Pathfinder Project Scientist, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
NASA Television is available through the GE2 satellite which
is located on Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees West longitude,
frequency 3880.0 Mhz, audio 6.8 MHz.
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