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The Boston Globe database contains the full text of all staff-written news stories, features, columns, and editorials published in The Boston Globe, the largest source of information from the Northeast.
File 631 does not receive updates; the latest publication date in the file is December 31, 2009. Please see NewsRoom for current Boston Globe records.
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| Dates Covered: | December 12, 1979 to December 31, 2009 |
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| File Size: | 1,659,530 records as of December 2009 |
| Update Frequency: | Closed Please see NewsRoom for current Boston Globe records |
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| GENERALN | General News Files |
| PAPERS | Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.) |
| PAPERSMA | Massachusetts Newspapers |
| PAPERSMJ | U.S. Major Newspapers |
| PAPERSNE | U.S. Northeast Region Newspapers |
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| /TI | MARS MISSIONS WILL EXPLORE LIFE PROSPECT |
| JN=, JC=, PD=, PY= | Boston Globe (BG) - MONDAY, November 11, 1996 |
| AU= | By: David L. Chandler, Globe staff |
| ED=, /SH, SH=, PG= | Edition: Third Section: Health and Science Page: A11 |
| Word Count: 556 | |
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| /ME | STUDENT NEWSLINE |
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| /LP, /TX | It's been 20 years since any spacecraft successfully reached the planet |
| Mars, but that's all about to change. One US rocket took off last week and | |
| two more -- one Russian and one American -- are to be launched in the next | |
| month to begin a whole new wave of exploration of the most Earth-like other | |
| planet in the solar system. | |
| It's just a coincidence, but luckily this sudden renewal of efforts to | |
| explore Mars is happening just at a time when people are more interested in | |
| Mars than ever: Last August, a team of scientists said they had found | |
| evidence of ancient Mars life inside a rock that came to Earth from Mars. | |
| /TX | The signs of life they found were just microbes, like bacteria on Earth. |
| But scientists say finding any kind of life at all on another planet, even | |
| if it went extinct long ago, would be one of the greatest discoveries in | |
| history. | |
| Less than two weeks ago, another team in England reported that they had | |
| found new evidence to support the American team's conclusions, and that | |
| they also saw signs of past life inside a more recent rock from Mars -- one | |
| that formed 175 million years ago, as opposed to the 4.5 million year age | |
| of the earlier find. | |
| Nobody doubts that the rocks really came from Mars. Tiny bubbles of air | |
| trapped inside exactly match the air on Mars. Scientists know that because | |
| of detailed information about Mars' air that was sent back from two | |
| spacecraft called Viking that landed on Mars in 1976. The rocks must have | |
| been blasted to Earth when a huge asteroid or comet hit Mars long ago. | |
| Many scientists are still not quite convinced about the evidence for | |
| life in those rocks. But some experiments that will be sent to Mars in the | |
| new round of exploration might help to answer some of the remaining | |
| questions. | |
| For example, one experiment that Viking did on Mars 20 years ago | |
| produced results that some scientists believe indicated that there are | |
| still living microbes on Mars today. One experiment that will arrive on | |
| Mars next year will attempt to find an explanation for those old Viking | |
| results. It could possibly find the long-awaited proof that there is life | |
| today on another world -- something humans have been wondering about for | |
| thousands of | |
| years. | |
| But many scientists think the best place to look for life on Mars is | |
| down below the surface, where underground pools or lakes could provide a | |
| safe, warm environment for living creatures. Unfortunately, none of the | |
| missions planned so far includes a way of drilling more than a few feet | |
| below the surface. | |
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| SF=, /CP, /TX | PHOTO |
| The Delta 2 rocket is launched to Mars on Thursday. Next month, another | |
| US rocket is scheduled to head for Mars. Its goal is to put the Mars | |
| Pathfinder (right) and its small robotic vehicle, Sojourner (below), on the | |
| planet's surface. | |
| Copyright (c) 1996, Globe Newspaper Company | |
| /DE | DESCRIPTORS: US SPACE; RESEARCH; |
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| /LP | LP | Lead Paragraph3 | Word | S SOLAR(W)SYSTEM/LP |
| /ME | ME | Memo3 | Word | S WIRETAP/ ME |
| /SH | SH | Section Heading2 | Word | S SCIENCE/SH |
| /TI | TI | Headline | Word | S MARS(2N)MISSION?/TI |
| /TX | TX | Text | Word | S MARS(10N)EXPLOR?/TX |
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2 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.
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| DL= | DL | Dateline | Phrase | S DL=WASHINGTON |
| DY= | DY | Publication Day1 | Phrase | S DY=FRIDAY |
| ED= | ED | Edition | Phrase | S ED=THIRD |
| JC= | JC | Newspaper Code4 | Phrase | S JC=BG |
| JN= | JN | Newspaper Name | Phrase | S JN=BOSTON GLOBE |
| MO= | MO | Publication Month1 | Phrase | S MO=NOVEMBER |
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Phrase | S PD=19961111 |
| PG= | PG | Page Number | Phrase | S PG=A11 |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Phrase | S PY=1996 |
| RG= | RG | U.S. Region5 | Phrase | S RG=WEST |
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