NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

12:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Sept. 23
Ulysses Update: Conditions On and Surrounding the Sun

NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission revealing that the sun’s solar wind is at a 50-year low.

The panelists are:
-- Dave McComas, Ulysses solar wind instrument principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
-- Ed Smith, NASA Ulysses project scientist and magnetic field instrument investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Karine Issautier, Ulysses radio wave lead investigator, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
-- Nancy Crooker, Research Professor, Boston University, Boston, Mass.

* A link to the streaming audio will appear here before the event.