Nov. 28, 2005

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Headquarters, Washington 
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NASA ANNOUNCES JOINT NEWS BRIEFING TO DISCUSS TITAN AND MARS

It has been a big year for two NASA supported European Space Agency 
(ESA) missions. At 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, ESA presents the latest 
Huygens probe and Mars Express orbiter results during back-to-back 
briefings from the agency's Paris headquarters.

NASA TV airs the briefing live, with question-and-answer capability 
only from room CD-61 at NASA Headquarters, Washington. An audio-only 
line is available at: (011) 33 1 56 78 57 33. 

Huygens probe panelists:
-Prof. David Southwood, ESA Director of Science Program
-Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens mission scientist
-Robin Duttaray, co-investigator, Doppler Wind Experiment, University 
of Bonn, Germany
-Marcello Fulchignoni, principal investigator, Huygens Atmospheric 
Structure Instrument
-John Zarnecki, Surface Science Package, Open University, UK
-François Raulin, co-investigator, Gas Chromatograph Mass 
Spectrometer, Université de Paris 2 -Créteil
-Guy Israel, principal investigator, Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyser, 
Service d'Aéronomie/CNRS
-Bruno Bezard, co-investigator, Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, 
Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique, 
Observatoire de Paris
-Jonathan Lunine, interdisciplinary scientist, Titan 
surface-atmosphere interactions, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 
University of Arizona, Tucson

For information about the Cassini-Huygens mission on the Web, visit: 

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm



http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

Mars Express panelists:
-Agustín Chicarro, ESA Mars Express project scientist
-Giovanni Picardi, MARSIS principal investigator, University of Rome 
La Sapienza, Italy 
-Jeffrey Plaut, MARSIS co-principal investigator, NASA's Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-Jean-Pierre Bibring, OMEGA principal investigator, Institut 
d'Astrophysique spatiale, Orsay, France
-Gerhard Neukum, HRSC principal investigator, Freie Universität, 
Berlin

For information about Mars Express on the Web, visit: 

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/express/



http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/home

	
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