NASA Hosts 3 p.m. EDT Teleconference with Mars 2020 Principal Investigators

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July 31, 2014 NASA Hosts 3 p.m. EDT Teleconference with Mars 2020 Principal Investigators NASA will host a teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today with the principal investigators of the selected instruments that will fly aboard the agency’s Mars 2020 rover. The agency announced at its headquarters in Washington that its next roving Mars laboratory will carry seven instruments that will conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet. Principal Investigators: - James Bell, Arizona State University in Phoenix. - Roger Wiens, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. - Abigail Allwood, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.  - Luther Beegle, JPL - Michael Hecht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge - Jose Rodriguez-Manfredi, Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Spain. - Svein-Erik Hamran, Forsvarets Forskning Institute, Norway. NASA Headquarters participants are: - Jim Green, director of Planetary Science - Mitch Schulte, Mars 2020 program scientist - Ken Farley, Mars 2020 project scientist, JPL To participate by phone, reporters must contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx and provide their media affiliation by 2:45 p.m. EDT. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio For more information about NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mars -end- Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx NASA news releases and other information are available automatically by sending an e-mail message with the subject line subscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe from the list, send an e-mail message with the subject line unsubscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.     › Back To Top