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7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars
space.com via AP ^
| Mon Jun 21, 5:00 pm ET
| Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 06/21/2010 8:18:05 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; mars; martianskylights; pavonismons; science
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Could be a martian gopher hole. =)
To: Redcitizen
NASA, are you smarter than a 7th grader? LOL
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:19:46 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: Redcitizen
Calling Richard C. Hoagland.
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:21:57 PM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
To: SandRat
lotsa unexplored terrain on mars still. easy to see why NASA missed it.
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:25:31 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen
Is it just me or does this resemble an open mouth lined with sharp little teeth?
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:26:27 PM PDT
by
katana
(For what is an Irishman ? But a .......)
To: KevinDavis; SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:27:47 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Redcitizen
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:28:51 PM PDT
by
BreitbartSentMe
((Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*))
To: Redcitizen
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:29:31 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 514 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: guitarplayer1953
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:32:07 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen
I bet that if I read the article instead of reading the just what is posted, I would not be wondering why we have 7th graders on Mars looking for caves.
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:34:34 PM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: katana
Is it just me or does this resemble an open mouth lined with sharp little teeth?
Yes it does! Creepy!
To: katana
Yea looks like a strike crater with a sand dune blown into it to me.
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:36:40 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: katana
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:37:51 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
To: katana
Oh and just to fit in with your comment:
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:38:05 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: katana
On closer zoom... this is no cave.
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:38:33 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
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To: GregoTX
We have seventh graders on MArs looking for caves because they are minors (miners- bad pun).
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:40:08 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen
NASA Photo Shows Humanoid Figure on Mars January 23, 2008
A detail from a NASA image of a Martian crater shows ... well, something. A detail from a NASA image of a Martian crater shows... well, something.
Is it Bigfoot? A Tusken Raider from the first "Star Wars" movie? Or just a rock?
..."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324800,00.html
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:43:19 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Bush_Democrat
Cannon to launch shells encasing Martians in tripods armed with heat rays and poison gas canisters?
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:46:16 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
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To: ETL
my vote is for a tusken raider since Mars looks like Tatooine.
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:48:06 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Tagline out- use detour)
To: Redcitizen
From October 2009:
Mars Caves Might Protect Microbes (or Astronauts)
By Andrea Thompson, Senior Writer
A series of newly discovered depressions on the Martian surface could be the entrances to a cave system on the red planet.
Hints of subsurface tunnels have been found in images of Mars before, but the new evidence is more suggestive, said Glen Cushing, a physicist with the U.S. Geological Survey who discovered the possible caves. ...”
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091026-mm-mars-caves.html
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posted on
06/21/2010 8:51:52 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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