NASA Media Briefing on Mission to Study Auroras

Jan. 11, 2007

Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726/3895

Cynthia O'Carroll/Rani Gran
Goddard Space Flight Center, Md.
301-286-4647/2483

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-003

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 to
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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