Contour News

• A Violent History of Time.
  NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope named GLAST to study the most violent explosions in the history of our Universe.
  
  
• Mercury Flyby Sets Stage for New Discoveries.
  Last week's historic flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft gathered 500 megabytes of data and more than a thousand high-resolution photos covering nearly six million square miles of previously unseen terrain.
  
  
• Radical New Lab Fights Disease Using Satellites.
  A cutting-edge laboratory has opened in Alabama. Its mission: to combat diseases ranging from asthma to malaria to stroke using data from NASA satellites. Space scientists and public health officials are working together to train the doctors of tomorrow in this far-out approach to medicine.
  
  
• Exploring the Cosmos in Braille.
  Images from NASA telescopes are jewels of the space program, marvelous to behold. But how do you behold them when you can't see? The answer lies between the covers of a new NASA-funded book written in Braille, Touch the Invisible Sky.
  
  
• Ulysses Flyby of the Sun's North Pole.
  At a pivotal moment of the solar cycle, the NASA/ESA Ulysses spacecraft is flying over the sun's mysterious North Pole.
  
  

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