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Jan. 11, 2007
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NASA Media Briefing on Mission to Study Auroras
GREENBELT, Md. - NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 1 p.m. EST.
THEMIS consists of five identical probes that will study the violent colorful eruptions of the Earth auroras. The satellites will launch aboard a Delta II rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Thursday, Feb. 15, for a two-year mission.
Briefing participants:
-- Craig Pollock, THEMIS program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Vassilis Angelopoulos, THEMIS principal investigator, University of California, Berkeley
-- Peter Harvey, THEMIS project manager, University of California, Berkeley
-- Jim Slavin, director, Goddard Space Flight Center Heliophysics Division, Greenbelt, Md.
Reporters should call 888-455-0031 and use the pass code "THEMIS" to participate in the teleconference. International media should call +1-210-234-0007. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
Related images will be available at::
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/news/prelaunch_briefing.html
For more information about the THEMIS mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/themis
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