Jan. 22, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-018 NASA HOSTS JAN. 23 MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON SUN OBSERVATIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 23, to discuss new observations of a large active region in the sun's 1- million-degree atmosphere called the corona. Researchers have been studying detailed images from the High Resolution Coronal (Hi-C) Imager telescope with its 9.5-inch diameter mirror. The instrument was launched aboard a sounding rocket in July 2012 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The media teleconference participants are: -- Jeff Newmark, sounding rocket program scientist, Heliophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Jonathan Cirtain, Hi-C mission principal investigator, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. -- Karel Schrijver, senior fellow, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif. -- Amy Winebarger, senior astrophysicist, Marshall Space Flight Center Reporters can obtain dial-in information by sending an email to Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx. Requests must include reporter's name, affiliation, and telephone number. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio Related images for the teleconference will be available at: http://www.nasa.gov/sunearth For more information about NASA's sounding rocket program, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets -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
