News release: 2012-240 Aug. 12, 2012
President Obama to Call NASA's Mars Rover Team Today
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-240&cid=release_2012-240
PASADENA, Calif. - President Barack Obama will congratulate members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) this morning.
Audio of the call and video of the JPL team's portion of the call will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website. It will also be streamed live to http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .
President Obama's call comes a week after Curiosity landed on the Red Planet. Curiosity carries the most advanced science payload ever used on Mars' surface. During the next two years, it will use its 10 instruments to investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life and for preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life.
Curiosity was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, which also is where the rover's mission control is located.
For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
For more information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mars and http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .
The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
Veronica McGregor 818-354-9452
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Veronica.mcgregor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Michael Cabbage 202-358-1600
NASA Headquarters, Washington
mcabbage@xxxxxxxx
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