NASA dará entrevista para anunciar importante descoberta na busca de vida ET

Nov. 29, 2010

Dwayne Brown 
Headquarters, Washington                                
202-358-1726 
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov 

Cathy Weselby 
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 
650-604-2791 
cathy.weselby@nasa.gov 
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-167

NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE ON ASTROBIOLOGY DISCOVERY; SCIENCE JOURNAL HAS EMBARGOED DETAILS UNTIL 2 P.M. EST ON DEC. 2

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on 
Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact 
the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the 
study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in 
the universe. 

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium 
at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA 
Television and streamed on the agency's website at 
http://www.nasa.gov. 

Participants are: 
-     Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, 
Washington 
-     Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. 
Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif. 
-     Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight 
Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
-     Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied 
Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla. 
-     James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe 

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by 
phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in 
information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and 
telephone number to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov or call 
202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2. 

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 





For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit: 



http://astrobiology.nasa.gov 

 
Fonte: NASA