June 06, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@xxxxxxxxxxxx MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-094 NASA TO HOST JUNE 7 MARS ROVER OPPORTUNITY TELECONFERENCE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary of this rover's launch is next month. The briefing participants will be: -- John Callas, project manager for Opportunity, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. -- Steve Squyres, principal investigator for Opportunity, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. -- Ray Arvidson, deputy principal investigator, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. For teleconference dial-in information, reporters must send their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Elena Mejia at elena.mejia@xxxxxxxxxxxx or 818-393-5467. Audio and visuals of the event will be streamed live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 Visuals will be available at the start of the event at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/telecon/20130607.html For information about NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project and the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers and http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov -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
