NEWS TIP SHEET
Jan. 21, 2004
CU-Boulder will hold a second open house for the public at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics facility at the CU Research Park in conjunction with NASA's second Mars Rover landing slated for the evening of Jan. 24.
The evening open house at LASP's Space Technology Building will be held from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. MST. A live NASA feed is expected to broadcast the landing.
NASA's Opportunity Rover, a duplicate of the Spirit Rover which landed on Mars Jan. 3, is expected to arrive on Mars at 9:54 p.m. MST on Jan 24.
Although the Opportunity Rover open house will include play-by-play analysis by NASA officials, it is unclear if there will be any video of the Mars landings in real time, said LASP Education and Outreach Coordinator Emily CoBabe-Ammann. The Jan. 24 event at CU-Boulder will include footage from NASA's Spirit Rover landing on Jan. 3.
The Jan. 24 event will feature talks by Professor Bruce Jakosky, director of the CU-Boulder Center for Astrobiology, and LASP Research Associate Brian Hyneck. The event will include tours of the LASP engineering and mission operations facilities.
The LASP Space Technology building is located on the north side of Colorado Avenue between 30th Street and the Foothills Parkway. The facility is a large brick and glass building set back from the road with a LASP sign and a large white satellite dish on top.
Parking is free. For more information, please contact Emily CoBabe-Ammann at (303) 735-5814 or at ecobabe@lasp.colorado.edu or Jim Scott in the CU-Boulder News Office at (303) 492-3114 or jim.scott@colorado.edu.