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NASA to reveal Pluto Science Findings, new Photos during NASA TV Briefing, July 17th

Written by Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo
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NASA - National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationWashington, D.C. – NASA will hold a media briefing at 1:00pm EDT Friday, July 17th, to reveal new images of Pluto and discuss new science findings from Tuesday’s historic flyby.

The briefing will be held in James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 East Street SW in Washington.

NASA Television and the agency’s website will carry the briefing live.

This new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset. The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. The image was taken at approximately 6:30am EDT on July 14th, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach to Pluto, from a range of 49,000 miles (79,000 kilometers). (NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)
This new image of an area on Pluto’s largest moon Charon has a captivating feature — a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset. The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. The image was taken at approximately 6:30am EDT on July 14th, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach to Pluto, from a range of 49,000 miles (79,000 kilometers). (NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)

Participants in the briefing will be:

  • Jim Green, director of Planetary Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington
  • Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado
  • Randy Gladstone, New Horizons co-investigator at SwRI in San Antonio
  • Jeffrey Moore, New Horizons co-investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California
  • Fran Bagenal, New Horizons co-investigator, University of Colorado, Boulder

Media may participate by phone. To join the briefing by phone, reporters must email their name, affiliation and telephone number to Karen Northon at karen.northon@nasa.gov by noon Friday.

Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, schedules, video and images, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

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