October 13, 2005

Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown 
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1237/1726) 

RELEASE: M05-170

NASA'S HUBBLE REVEALS MOON'S PROSPECTS

NASA hosts a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 19, to 
discuss new Hubble Space Telescope images of the moon’s surface in 
ultraviolet light. The press conference is in NASA's auditorium, 300 
E Street S.W., Washington.

Using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, preliminary assessments 
suggest a newly discovered abundance of titanium and iron oxides. 
They may be sources of oxygen and a potential resource for human 
exploration. 

Panelists: 
- Jennifer Wiseman, Hubble program scientist, NASA Headquarters
- Jim Garvin, chief scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, 
Greenbelt, Md. 
- Mark Robinson, research associate professor, Center of Planetary 
Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
- Michael Wargo, Exploration Systems lunar scientist, NASA 
Headquarters

The conference will be live on NASA TV with question-and-answer 
capability from participating agency centers. To ask questions by 
phone, reporters should call: 888/843-6165 or 773/756-0455; provide 
the passcode "moon."

NASA TV is available on the Web and on an MPEG-2 digital signal 
accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, 
transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. It's available in 
Alaska and Hawaii on AMC-7 at 137 degrees west longitude, transponder 
18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast 
compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder is required for reception. For 
NASA TV information and schedules on the Web, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

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

http://www.nasa.gov/home 

	
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