credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
It seems that young and curious eyes can see things that more experienced ones cannot. A group of students from California discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars. Experts think the hole could be the skylight of a large lava tube. The students were developing a research project using an image taken by the camera of the Mars Odyssey orbiter when they found the round black spot on the surface. You can read more about the discovery here.
Another news about Martian exploration is that the Phoenix Mars lander doesn't seem to have survived the harsh winter conditions. (Earlier about the Phoenix on lucidenglish) According to this article, the lander's solar panels were severely damaged by the accumulated ice. At least, that's what the images taken by the Mars Odyssey orbiter suggest.
You can download a fill-in the gap exercise for the simplified version of the text here.
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