NASA Hosts Teleconference About Rover En Route To Mars Landing

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Jun 07, 2012, 03:53 ET

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EDT, June 11, to provide a status update on the Aug. 5, 2012, landing of the most advanced rover ever to be sent to Mars.

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NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, will land near the Martian equator at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT, Aug. 5, (1:31 a.m. EDT, Aug. 6).

Panelists include:

-- Dave Lavery, MSL program executive, NASA Headquarters, Washington

-- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters

-- Pete Theisinger, MSL project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

-- John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

For dial-in information, reporters must e-mail their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Dwayne Brown at [email protected] by 11:30 a.m. EDT, June 11.

Audio of the event will be streamed live online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

The public can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:

http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity

http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity

For more information about the mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/msl

SOURCE NASA