NASA to Release New Details From Close Flyby of Saturn Moon

NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, March 26, to present new clues on the composition of the icy plumes jetting off the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings were obt

-- Hunter Waite, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, principal investigator, Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer

-- John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo., co-investigator, Composite Infrared Spectrometer

-- Larry Esposito, University of Colorado, Boulder, principal investigator, Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph

-- Carolyn Porco, Space Science Institute, Boulder, team leader, Imaging Science Subsystem

Participating NASA centers will provide question-and-answer capability for reporters.

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http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

CONTACT: Dwayne Brown of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov; or Carolina Martinez of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-9382, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov

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