NASA Holds Teleconference on Hubble Observations of Jupiter's Largest Moon

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Mar 09, 2015, 02:31 ET

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 12, to discuss Hubble Space Telescope's observations of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. These results will help scientists in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth.

Participants in the teleconference will be:

Jim Green, director of Planetary Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Joachim Saur, professor for geophysics, University of Cologne, Germany
Jennifer Wiseman, Hubble senior project scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Heidi Hammel, executive vice president, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Washington

To participate by phone, reporters must contact Felicia Chou at 202-358-0257 or [email protected] and provide their media affiliation no later than noon Wednesday.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/hubble

For information about our solar system, including Jupiter and Ganymede, visit:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/

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