Badges for foreign national visitors require substantial additional lead time for processing. Hotel vacancies in the Silicon Valley area are very scarce. Details on hotels will be posted shortly at this Web site. In addition, there are rooms located on base at NASA Ames. These rooms are located in old Navy housing but are actually very nice.
All rooms have a refrigerator, and some have microwave ovens and TVs.
The workshop will be held in the Space Science Auditorium located in Building 245 at Ames. Seating is limited to 100 people. Oral presentations are strongly preferred as there is limited space for poster presentations. Input from the science community is critical to identification of optimal landing sites for the MERs.