Team members of NASA’s Juno mission to
Jupiter will discuss the latest science results, an amateur imaging
processing campaign, and the recent decision to postpone a scheduled burn of
its main engine, during a media briefing at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 19.
The briefing will air live on NASA Television and stream on the agency’s
website.
The briefing participants are:
·
David
Schurr, deputy director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA
Headquarters in Washington
·
Rick
Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, California
·
Scott
Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute in
San Antonio
·
Candice
Hansen, JunoCam imaging scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in
Tucson, Arizona
The briefing will take place at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) Division of Planetary Sciences and European Planetary Science Congress (DPS/EPSC) at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. To attend the Juno briefing in person, media should request a press registration form at the event registration desk.
For access to the event live webcast, media
should send their name and media affiliation to AAS Press Officer Rick
Fienberg at rick.fienberg@aas.org, or
call 857-891-5649, by 1 p.m. Wednesday.
NASA's Juno spacecraft entered orbit around
Jupiter on July 4. On Aug. 27, it performed its first close flyby of the
planet. It was the first time Juno had its entire suite of science
instruments activated and observing the planet as the spacecraft zoomed past.
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