NASA Science Update to Discuss New Phenomena on the Sun

Mar. 14, 2007

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726

Steve Roy
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
256-544-0034

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-29

NASA SCIENCE UPDATE TO DISCUSS NEW PHENOMENA ON THE SUN

WASHINGTON - A NASA Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 21
will be held to discuss never-before-seen observations from an
international mission studying the sun. The briefing will take place
in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E Street, S.W., Washington.
It will air live on NASA Television and www.nasa.gov.

The Hinode spacecraft, Japanese for "sunrise," launched in September
2006 to study the sun's magnetic field and how its explosive energy
propagates through the different layers of the solar atmosphere. The
spacecraft was known previously as Solar B.

Panelists will be:
-- Richard Fisher, director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
-- Alan Title, senior fellow, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Center, Palo Alto, Calif., and consulting professor of Physics,
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
-- Leon Golub, senior astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
-- Judith Karpen, research astrophysicist, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington

Panelists will answer questions from journalists at participating NASA
locations. Reporters should call their preferred field center to
confirm participation availability.

For more information about Hinode, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/solar-b

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

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