NASA DISCUSSION ON NEW MARS SCIENCE RESULTS, June 7, 2018, virtual, 2:00 pm ET (webcast)

NASA will host a live discussion about new Mars science results at 2:00 pm ET on June 7, 2018.  The event will air live on NASA TV and the agency’s website.

More information is in the NASA announcement, which is reproduced below.

June 04, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-090
NASA to Host Live Discussion on New Mars Science Results

The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.The media and public are invited to ask questions during a live discussion at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 7, on new science results from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover. The results are embargoed by the journal Science until then.

Michelle Thaller, assistant director of science for communications, in NASA’s Planetary Science Division will host the chat. Participants include:

• Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
• Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard
• Chris Webster, senior research fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
• Ashwin Vasavada, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist, JPL

Media who would like to participate by phone must email their name, media affiliation and phone number to Nancy Jones at nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov by 1 p.m. on June 7.

The public can send questions on social media by using #askNASA. The event can also be watched on Facebook Live, Twitch TV, Ustream, YouTubeand Twitter/Periscope.

For information about NASA’s Curiorsity rover, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/msl

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