7th Graders Find Large Cave On Mars 139
A newly discovered cave on Mars was found as the result of an interesting crowdsourcing project. As EMB Numbers writes, "CNET news reports that 'the science class from Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found the opening while working on a research project with the Mars Space Flight Facility run out of Arizona State University in Tempe. ... The students examined more than 200 images of Mars taken with the Thermal Emission Imaging System (Themis), an instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.' The only other similar opening near the volcano was found in 2007, when Glen Cushing, a scientist with the US Geological Survey, published a research paper on the surface anomalies. The opening is estimated to be 620 by 520 feet and the hole to be at least 380 feet deep."
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
these kids today (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just kidding, folks. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:these kids today (Score:5, Funny)
Get off my Martian lawn!!
Is this where (Score:5, Funny)
More pics (Score:5, Funny)
Spoiled kids (Score:5, Funny)
In my day, a fieldtrip consisted of nothing more than going outside -- in a field. The only caves we saw were the ones we had school in, and those were shared with the grizzly bears. If you've never seen your best friend's head get popped like a grape in the jaws of a grizzly, you've got it easy. It wasn't all bad though. Whenever we got a new transfer student, we'd convince them to yell into the cave really loud to "scare away the bats." Man, that was hilarious.
Anyway, yeah.. Mars.
Re:Interesting location (Score:4, Funny)
Diametrically opposite to the face on mars.
Perhaps we will be seeing National Enquirer headlines about "The Giant Martian Anus" soon?
Re:these kids today (Score:5, Funny)
I found it first (Score:3, Funny)
Opposite side of the planet as the face on Mars.
Re:Wow .. Grade 7 has changed (Score:3, Funny)
Wait, we are supposed to give more money to schools where teachers are getting robbed at knifepoint? That doesn't seem like a great investment to me...
Re:Question (Score:5, Funny)
And The NASA Scientists Are All Asking Themselves (Score:5, Funny)
Are You Smarter Than A 7th Grader?
Quoting Robin: (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously offtopic (Score:3, Funny)
Y'know what I find frustratingly unfair about virtually ALL Internet comment-posting systems?
They all have a "submit" button, but there's never a "dominate" button ...
Re:Wow .. Grade 7 has changed (Score:3, Funny)
I've been to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and none of the caves there are 5-600 feet wide, tall, or anything.
The Parks Service begs to differ. Would length fall into your definition of anything?