NASA will host a media teleconference at Noon EST (10:30 Pm India Time) on Friday, Nov. 7, to provide initial science observations of Siding Spring's close flyby of Mars and the impact on the Martian atmosphere.
MAVEN, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and a radar instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express's first close-up studies of the comet is included.
Briefing participants include:
Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Nick Schneider, instrument lead for MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph, University of Colorado, Boulder
Mehdi Benna, instrument scientist for MAVEN's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Don Gurnett, lead investigator on the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument on Mars Express, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Alan Delamere, co-investigator for MRO's HiRISE instrument, Delamere Support Services, Boulder, Colorado.
Visuals (posted at the start of the event ) will be at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mars/telecon
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
The event will also be streamed, with visuals used by the participants, at:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
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The Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) related data:
CRISM recorded imaging data in 107 different wavelengths, showing the inner part of coma, (surrounding the comet's nucleus)
( images from CRISM presenting three of the recorded wavelengths are online at:)
http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/?ImageID=6692