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using the camera on nasa's mars odyssey

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orbiter california middle school

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students recently discovered a cave on

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mars the discovery by the seventh grade

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class at evergreen middle school in

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cottonwood california was made possible

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by nasa's mars student imaging program

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program that invites classrooms

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nationwide to conduct planetary

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exploration and science using NASA

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instruments the program is run by

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arizona state university tempe and

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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you

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NASA's marston engine project was really

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designed to give students authentic

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research opportunities in science the

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really cool thing is that they're able

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to use a camera on the Mars Odyssey

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orbiter take a picture and it gets

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returned to them they get to work with

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the science teams and come up with their

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own research results these students are

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typical middle school students from a

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small town and what they've achieved in

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discovering a cave on Mars really speaks

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to what students all over the country

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can do no matter where they are the real

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payoff in my mind of a project that

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allows students to participate in Mars

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missions or any NASA mission is that

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they can really see themselves as

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scientists and engineers of the future

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their confidence grows they're doing