Middle school project discovers cave skylight on Mars

[kodemunkey]

They went looking for lava tubes on Mars — and found what may be a hole in the roof of a Martian cave.

The 16 students in Dennis Mitchell's 7th-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., chose to study lava tubes, a common volcanic feature on Earth and Mars. It was their class project for the Mars Student Imaging Program (MSIP), a component of ASU's Mars Education Program, which is run out of the Mars Space Flight Facility on the Tempe campus.

The imaging program involves upper elementary to college students in Mars research by having them develop a geological question to answer about Mars. Then the students actually command a Mars-orbiting camera to take an image to answer their question. Since MSIP began in 2004, more than 50,000 students have participated to varying extents.

https://asunews.asu.edu/20100617_skylight

We need a mars zoo

[jules]

I think Mars has pretty much been done. And there's this - which I lost patience with!

[kodemunkey]

but still, american middle school kids get all the fancy toys.