Nasa To Reveal New Scientific Findings About The Moon

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WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new science data from the moon
collected during national and international space missions. NASA
Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of
the briefing from the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA
Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, in Washington.

The briefing participants are:
- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission
Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Carle Pieters, principal investigator, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, Brown
University
- Rob Green, project instrument scientist, Moon Mineralogy Mapper,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
- Roger Clark, team member, Cassini spacecraft Visual and Infrared
Mapping Spectrometer and co-investigator, Moon Mineralogy Mapper,
U.S. Geological Survey in Denver
- Jessica Sunshine, deputy principal investigator for NASA's Deep
Impact extended mission and co-investigator for Moon Mineralogy
Mapper, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland

Reporters unable to attend the briefing may ask questions by
telephone. To reserve a telephone line, journalists should e-mail
their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at:

stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov

Papers supporting the briefing will be published online by the journal
Science at its Science Express Web site. Science will lift its
embargo at 2 p.m. EDT, Sept. 24.

For more information about NASA TV downlinks and streaming video,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv