• NASA News Briefing: Discoveries About Oceans Beyond Earth

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    NASA News Briefing: Discoveries About Oceans Beyond Earth
    April 10, 2017

    NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from
    the agency's Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during
    a news briefing 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 13. The event,
    to be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, will include remote participation
    from experts across the country.

    The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

    These new discoveries will help inform future ocean world exploration
    -- including NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission planned for launch
    in the 2020s -- and the broader search for life beyond Earth.

    The news briefing participants will be:

    Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate
    at NASA Headquarters in Washington
    Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters
    Mary Voytek, astrobiology senior scientist at NASA Headquarters
    Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
    Hunter Waite, Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) team
    lead at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio
    Chris Glein, Cassini INMS team associate at SwRI
    William Sparks, astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute
    in Baltimore

    Members of the public can ask questions during the briefing using #AskNASA.

    The event will also be streamed live at :

    YouTube.com/nasajpl/live

    For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and to view the news briefing, visit:

    http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

    For more information on ocean worlds, visit:

    https://www.nasa.gov/specials/ocean-worlds

    For more information on Cassini, visit:

    https://www.nasa.gov/cassini

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

    For more information on Hubble, visit:

    https://www.nasa.gov/hubble

    News Media Contact

    Preston Dyches
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
    818-354-7013
    preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.gov

    Felicia Chou / Dwayne Brown
    NASA Headquarters, Washington
    202 358 0257 / 202-358-1077
    felicia.chou@nasa.gov / dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

    Rob Gutro
    Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
    301-286-4044
    robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov

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