NASA to Discuss the Latest Findings From Mars Curiosity Rover

NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Mobile Robot

This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

On May 30th, NASA will hold a press conference to discuss the latest findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector aboard the Curiosity rover.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity.

The briefing participants are:

  • Donald M. Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
  • Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, Southwest Research Institute
  • Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston
  • Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems, NASA Headquarters, Washington

The Southwest Research Institute and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany’s national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars Exploration Program.

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