Exploring Caves From 30 Feet In The Air
It was Thursday morning, just after dawn. A group of about 20 of us had been driving through the Mojave Desert since 4:30 am, in the dark, and we had finally arrived at our destination: a large flat parking area near the top of a volcanic cinder cone, a short ways up a makeshift road from an abandoned mine. Before us stretched the vast black Pisgah Lava Beds, home to more than 300 lava-tube caves.
We were there as part of Spaceward Bound, a NASA program that brings elementary-, middle- and high-school teachers together with scientists to do field research focused on the search for life on Mars.
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May 2, 2007 at 8:39 am