7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

[Parche]

A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet.


The 16 students from teacher Dennis Mitchell's 7th-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found what looks to be a Martian skylight — a hole in the roof of a cave on Mars.


The intrepid students were participating in the Mars Student Imaging Program at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. The program allows students to frame a research question and then commission a Mars-orbiting camera to take an image to answer their question.


The newfound hole on Mars resembled features seen on other parts of Mars in a 2007 study by Glen Cushing, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist.


Cushing suggested that these anomalous pit craters are like skylights — places where a small part of the roof of a cave or a lava tube had collapsed, opening the area below the surface to the sky.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100621/sc_space/7thgradersdiscovermysteriouscaveonmars


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Glad it wasnt on the planet URANUS
:woohoo: :hi:

[cloudbase]

1. They've found

Bin Laden's hideout. Bombs away!

[slampoet]

2. "Billy don't go in there is looks haunted!! I'm telling MOM!!"

[baldguy]

3. .

[burrowowl]

4. Good show!

Gives me some hope for Education in the U$ of A!