NASA revealed few details about what will be announced, but the “live discussion” will feature “new science results from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover,” according to the space agency’s announcement. The space agency wrote in a statement the “results are embargoed by the journal Science until Thursday 7”. The press conference is scheduled at 6pm GMT (2pm EDT). According to NASA,
Thursday’s discussion will be hosted by Michelle Thaller, the assistant director of science for communications in the agency’s Planetary Science Division. Presenters will include Jen Eigenbrode, a research scientist at the Goddard centre. Chris Webster, a senior research fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California will also be present along with Ashwin Vasavada, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project scientist at JPL. READ MORE
