Web-Streamed Event Will Cover Mars Science Findings

Scientists will discuss recent discoveries about Mars and future Mars exploration at a Jan. 13 event to be streamed live and archived...

January 11, 2011

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington will present a discussion of Mars science Thursday, Jan. 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST (7:30 to 9:30 a.m. PST) in a program to be televised and streamed online.

Mars experts from NASA, the European Space Agency and elsewhere will discuss the past and future of our understanding of the Red Planet. They will take questions from the audience. Viewers will learn the significance of water on Mars and see photographs from spacecraft at Mars.

For more information, see

http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=2641&hp=hi .

To watch the event live on the NASA Television website, go to www.nasa.gov/ntv .

To view an archived video after the event, go to http://www.youtube.com/NASAtelevision.