Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administrators said yesterday they are not sure of the building's site or of a possible completion deadline...
...possible site option could be in the area adjacent to the Mallinckrodt and Gibbs science buildings...
Another possible site is the land abutting the Busch-Riesinger Museum on Divinity Ave. However, Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, said yesterday that site would require the destruction of both an old home at 7 Divinity Ave. and the Prince Building, which currently houses the General Education Office...
...first view of Viking 2's new home, transmitted back to earth the following day, was also a surprise. Scientists had expected from orbital observations that the landing site would be covered with Sahara-like dunes. But the first panoramic pictures showed an area strikingly similar to that occupied by Viking 1: a relatively flat plain, strewn with porous, spongy-looking rocks that seemed as if they might be volcanic in origin and cut by a shallow channel that could have been carved by running water...
Scientists lost no time in studying Viking 2's new surroundings. With signals that took 21 minutes to traverse the 228,670,000 miles from earth to Mars, they swiveled the lander's cameras around for a better look at the Utopia site and the planet's salmon-pink sky, triggered its seismometers so that it could listen for Marsquakes (similar devices on Viking 1 have failed to work) and switched on its weather station instruments...