7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

[Cheryl Jones]

By Clara Moskowitz
Senior Writer
posted: 21 June 2010

"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."

Read on
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/s ... 00621.html

[JR-Orion]

Wow, nice find. 380 feet deep!