Moon, Mars Science Conference Events to be Streamed
Science conference briefings to be held next week in Houston will be streamed live online.
NASA's Mars Curiosity and lunar GRAIL missions, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will be among those discussed during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston on March 18 to 22.Science briefings for Curiosity and GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) will be streamed live by JPL on Ustream, as follows:--Mars Curiosity: Monday, March 18, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), online athttp://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl.-GRAIL and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Tuesday, March 19, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), online at:http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2.The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.The briefings, along with others from the conference, will also be streamed by the conference organizer, the Lunar and Planetary Institute of Houston, at:http://www.livestream.com/lpsc2013.The institute is managed by the Universities Space Research Association, a national, nonprofit consortium of universities chartered at NASA's request in 1969 by the National Academy of Sciences.For news products, a complete agenda and other conference information, visit:http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/. Follow the conference on Twitter and Facebook using the hashtag #lpsc2013:https://twitter.com/lpimeetingsandhttps://www.facebook.com/LunarandPlanetaryInstitute.More information about NASA's Curiosity mission is online at:http://www.nasa.gov/mslandhttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl. More information about NASA's GRAIL mission to the moon is at:http://www.nasa.gov/grail. Follow JPL on Twitter athttp://www.twitter.com/nasajpland on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/nasajpl.For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:http://www.nasa.gov.