7th Graders Find Large Cave On Mars

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."

Comments

Wow

[Locke2005]

The opening is estimated to be 620 feet by 520 feet and the hole to be at least 380 feet deep. Wow! That beats even goatse!

these kids today

[nopainogain]

when i was in 7th grade my parents wouldnt even let me go to the pool by myself.. these kids today...with their ipods, their myspaces, and their spelunking visits to mars.. No Seriously, good job.

Re:these kids today

[nopainogain]

kids dont know hard work today.. when I was their age, we had to watch archive footage of other people visiting other planets...in black and white...because we couldnt afford red planets back then..

Is this where

[GreenSquirrel2]

Kuato hid the oxygen generator?

More pics

[Locke2005]

Here's a high-res picture of the cave interior

Cannon

[HTH NE1]

That's no cave. That's the opening to the underground cannon the Martians used to fire their invasion cylinders at Earth during the opposition of the last years of the 19th century.