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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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