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1. TOUCH A PIECE OF MARS BEGINNING AUG 5 AT SPACE CENTER HOUSTON

Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:45:46 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: TOUCH A PIECE OF MARS BEGINNING AUG 5 AT SPACE CENTER HOUSTON

August 2, 2012

Susan Anderson Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Jack Moore Space Center Houston 281-244-2137

Report #J12-013

TOUCH A PIECE OF MARS BEGINNING AUG 5 AT SPACE CENTER HOUSTON

HOUSTON�You can touch a piece of Mars at Space Center Houston For the first time in the U S , visitors can touch a piece of the Red Planet � though the rocks on Mars aren�t red, only the dust

The official unveiling of the Martian touchstone will take place during the �Curiosity: Seven Minutes of Terror� event celebrating the 12:31 a m CDT Monday, Aug 6, landing of the Mars Science Lander Curiosity rover

The Space Center Houston event opens at 9 p m Sunday, Aug 5, with Mars-themed live broadcasts, astronaut autographs, special activities and a pancake breakfast, through 2 a m Monday Guest speakers from Johnson Space Center will include astronauts Stan Love and Mario Runco, and Mars exploration experts Carl Allen and John Connolly

The rock at Space Center Houston is the only Martian sample the public can touch, and is a piece from the EETA 79001 Martian meteorite found in the Antarctic in 1980 Part of the Antarctic meteorite collection at JSC, the sample is about 180 million years old � very young on the solar system scale � and is believed to have been thrown from Mars into space approximately 600,000 years ago At 17 4 pounds, the original rock is one of the largest Mars meteorites ever found

The Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office at JSC provided the sample The office, part of the center�s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate, is responsible for the curation of extraterrestrial samples from NASA's past and future sample return missions including the preservation, preparation and distribution of samples from the moon, asteroids, comets, the solar wind and the planet Mars

Curiosity�s two-year mission serves as a precursor to NASA�s planned human missions to Mars in the 2030s The Gale Crater landing area, near the planet�s equator, is considered as one of the most favorable for evidence of microbial life

The historic Mars Science Laboratory mission was launched in November 2011

Space Center Houston is the official Visitors Center of NASA�s Johnson Space Center For more information, visit:

http://spacecenter org/MarsLanding html

For more information on the Mars landing, visit:

http://www nasa gov/mars

For information on meteorite EETA79001, visit:

http://curator jsc nasa gov/antmet/samples/petdes cfm?sample=EET79001

http://curator jsc nasa gov/antmet/mmc/79001 pdf

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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