NASA to Hold Media Call on Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa

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September 20, 2016  MEDIA ADVISORY M16-111 NASA to Hold Media Call on Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. Astronomers will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean on Europa. Participants in the teleconference will be: Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington William Sparks, astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore Britney Schmidt, assistant professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta Jennifer Wiseman, senior Hubble project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland To participate by phone, media must contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx and provide their media affiliation no later than noon Monday. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on NASA’s website at: http://www.nasa.gov/live For information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble -end- 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.