Newly Discovered Martian Cave
Space.com has a great story about a group of 7th graders from Cottonwood, California that got to go where no middle schooler has gone before. The Mars Student Imaging Program, part of the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, lets students use the camera on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter to answer interesting research questions. While studying the most common locations for Martian lava tubes, they instead discovered what looks to be a hole in the roof of a martian cave. Now we just need to be able to beam someone down to take a look.
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