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...@jpl.nasa.gov

Felicia Chou / Dwayne Brown
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202 358 0257 / 202-358-1077
felici...@nasa.gov / dwayne....@nasa.gov

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

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