NASA Views Complex World: New Horizons Pluto Science Update Set for July 24

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Jul 21, 2015, 04:52 ET

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of NASA's New Horizons team will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 24, to reveal new images and discuss latest science results from the spacecraft's historic July 14 flight through the Pluto system.

The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E St. SW in Washington. NASA Television and the agency's website will carry the briefing live.

The briefing participants are:

Jim Green, director of Planetary Science at NASA Headquarters
Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado
Michael Summers, New Horizons co-investigator at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
William McKinnon, New Horizons co-investigator at Washington University in St. Louis
Cathy Olkin, New Horizons deputy project scientist at SwRI

Media may ask questions by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must send an email providing their name, affiliation and telephone number to Felicia Chou at [email protected] by noon Friday. Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, schedules, video and images, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

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