Hear a Curosity Rover Update

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-016

NASA HOSTS JAN. 15 TELECONFERENCE ON CURIOSITY ROVER PROGRESS

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m.
PST (1 p.m. EST) Tuesday, Jan. 15, to provide an update about the
Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars’ Gale Crater.

The Mars Science Laboratory Project and its Curiosity rover are five
months into a two-year prime mission to investigate whether
conditions may have been favorable for microbial life.

For teleconference dial-in information, reporters must send their
name, media affiliation and telephone number to Elena Mejia at
elena.mejia@jpl.nasa.gov or call NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Media Relations Office at 818-354-5011.

Audio and visuals of the event will be streamed live online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

and

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Visuals will be available at the start of the event at:

http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon

For information about NASA’s Curiosity mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/msl

and

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl

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