Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington                Oct. 31, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Bill Steigerwald
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-5017)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-63

WHAT'S NEW UNDER THE SUN? FIND OUT NOV. 6
AT THE NEXT SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE

     Scientists have studied sunspots for the past 400 years. 
Now, for the first time, they can peer below the surface at 
conditions that reveal the Sun's dark mysteries. What they've 
discovered is the subject of a Space Science Update at 1 p.m. 
EST on Tuesday, Nov. 6, at the James E. Webb Auditorium, NASA 
Headquarters, 300 E St., SW, Washington.

The participants will be: 
*  Dr. George L. Withbroe, Division Director, Sun-Earth 
Connection, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters
*  Prof. Philip H. Scherrer, SOHO/MDI Principal Investigator, 
Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
*  Dr. Alexander G. Kosovichev, Senior Research Scientist, 
W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford 
University
*  Dr. Neal E. Hurlburt, Physicist, Lockheed Martin Solar and 
Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
*  Prof. Douglas O. Gough, Professor of Theoretical 
Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, England

The Space Science Update will be carried live on NASA 
Television with two-way question-and-answer capability for 
reporters covering the briefing from NASA centers. NASA TV is 
broadcast on satellite GE-2, transponder 9C, at 85 degrees 
West longitude, vertical polarization, frequency 3880 MHz, 
audio of 6.8 MHz. The briefing will also be webcast live from 
the Internet through links found at:
http://www.nasa.gov
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