PASADENA, Calif. - NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity.

The briefing participants are: -- Donald M. Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio

-- Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, Southwest Research Institute

-- Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston

-- Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems, NASA Headquarters, Washington

The Southwest Research Institute and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project. NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars Exploration Program.

Audio and visuals of the event will be streamed live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .



Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory website at: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon .



For information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl . -end-



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Guy Webster/Elena Mejia 818-354-5011Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov / elena.mejia@jpl.nasa.govTrent Perrotto 202-358-1100NASA Headquarters, Washingtontrent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov2013-176