August 2003
Santsch, Darrell R. "Inland Students Help Mars Sites." The Press-Enterprise [Riverside CA]
21 August 2003
NASA scientists, with two spacecraft whistling toward Mars for landings in January, are undertaking a radar-mapping project to determine whether the landing sites are suitable. The project relies on the calculations of Apple Valley middle school students -- with some mapping help from some fourth-graders in Moreno Valley.
Santsch, Darrell R. "Inland Students Collect Data for NASA Mission." The Press-Enterprise [Riverside CA]23 August 2003
In the predawn hours Friday, even as their schoolmates were home asleep, 20 fourth- and fifth-graders reported for work at Northridge Elementary School in Moreno Valley. Their efforts, in conjunction with work by schoolchildren at the Lewis Center for Educational Research in Apple Valley and classes in Pennsylvania, Washington, and Iowa, will help determine whether a proposed landing site on the Red Planet is suitable for exploration.