NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Dec. 1, 2000

Media Advisory m00-223

SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES

MAJOR MARS DISCOVERY TO BE ANNOUNCED AT DEC. 7 SCIENCE

BRIEFING

VIDEO **ALL TIMES EASTERN***

VIDEO FILE FOR DEC. 1, 2000

UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS

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MAJOR MARS DISCOVERY TO BE ANNOUNCED AT DEC. 7 SCIENCE

BRIEFING

Imaging scientists Dr. Michael Malin and Dr. Ken Edgett from
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft will present what they
describe as their most significant discovery yet at a Space
Science Update at 2:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 7. Their
findings are being published in the December 8 issue of Science
Magazine.

This science update will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium

at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., S.W., Washington, DC, and will be
carried live on Telstar 5, transponder 11. The Ku-band satellite
is located 97 degrees West longitude with a downlink frequency of
11929 MHz, vertical polarity.

Please note that, due to coverage of the ongoing Shuttle mission,

NASA Television does not expect to carry this briefing, and two-
way question-and-answer capability from agency centers will not be
available.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage

(Phone: 202/358-1727)
Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA: Mary
Hardin (Phone: 818/354-0344)

For full text see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-058.txt

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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-mail

summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

************ VIDEO FILE ************

No Video File Today.

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ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA

VIDEO
FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m.,
9 p.m.and midnight Eastern Time.

**** Note **** During Space Shuttle missions, the NASA Television
schedule can be found at the following web address:
http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/tvsked/schedule.html

************ UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ************

Upcoming Television Events:

December 1 - December 11 - STS-97 Live Commentary - JSC

December 7, Thursday
- 2:00 p.m. - Space Science Update - HQ (this briefing will
be carried on a commercial satellite TBD)

December 11, Monday

- 5:58 p.m. - STS-97 Landing

For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html

During Space Shuttle missions, the NASA Television schedule

can be
found at the following web address:
http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/tvsked/schedule.html

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Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.

NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 Degrees

West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0
megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.
Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will

continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/

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