NASA Hosts Jan. 23 Media Teleconference on Sun Observations

Jan. 22, 2013

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-018

NASA HOSTS JAN. 23 MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON SUN OBSERVATIONS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST
Wednesday, Jan. 23, to discuss new observations of a large active
region in the sun's 1- million-degree atmosphere called the corona.

Researchers have been studying detailed images from the High
Resolution Coronal (Hi-C) Imager telescope with its 9.5-inch diameter
mirror. The instrument was launched aboard a sounding rocket in July
2012 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

The media teleconference participants are:
-- Jeff Newmark, sounding rocket program scientist, Heliophysics
Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Jonathan Cirtain, Hi-C mission principal investigator, Marshall
Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
-- Karel Schrijver, senior fellow, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Center, Palo Alto, Calif.
-- Amy Winebarger, senior astrophysicist, Marshall Space Flight Center


Reporters can obtain dial-in information by sending an email to Dwayne
Brown at dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov. Requests must include reporter's
name, affiliation, and telephone number.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:


http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

Related images for the teleconference will be available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/sunearth

For more information about NASA's sounding rocket program, visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets


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