April 21, 2011 Stephanie L. Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@xxxxxxxx Veronica McGregor Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9452 veronica.c.mcgregor@xxxxxxxxxxxx RELEASE: 11-122 TWEETUP AT NASA'S JPL PREVIEWS MISSIONS TO MARS, JUPITER AND MORE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will host a Tweetup for approximately 120 Twitter followers on Monday, June 6. With four space missions launching this year and an asteroid belt encounter nearly underway, 2011 will be one of the busiest ever in planetary exploration. Tweetup participants will interact with JPL scientists and engineers about these upcoming missions: Aquarius, to study ocean salinity; Grail, to study the moon's gravity field; Juno to Jupiter; and the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity rover. Participants also will learn about the Dawn mission and its upcoming encounter with the asteroid Vesta. The Tweetup will include a tour of JPL, robotics demonstrations and a last chance to see the Curiosity rover before it ships to Florida to prepare for a November launch. Tour stops will include the Spacecraft Assembly Facility where Curiosity is under construction, the mission control center of NASA's Deep Space Network, and JPL's new Earth Science Visitor Center. Tweetup participants also will mingle with fellow attendees and the staff behind the tweets on @NASA, @NASAJPL, @MarsRovers, @AsteroidWatch and more. Registration for the event opens at noon PDT on Tuesday, April 26, and it closes at noon on Wednesday, April 27. For more information about the Tweetup and to sign up, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/tweetup NASA Television will broadcast portions of the Tweetup on June 6 at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 Find all the ways to connect and collaborate with NASA at: http://www.nasa.gov/connect For more information about JPL, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/jpl -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
