7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave On Mars

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 NASAS spacecraft orbiting the red planet. The 16 students from teacher Dennis Mitchell’s 7th-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, California, found what looks like a Martian skylight – a hole in the roof of a cave on Mars. The 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.