Students from Laguna-Acoma High School helped NASA scientists conduct research on Mars.

The students were one of 13 teams that participated in the Athena Student Interns Program. They spent a year learning about the geology of New Mexico and and their work paid off in January, when they spent a week with NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Library in southern California.

The students' attention to geology paid off when they were able to identify a rock from Mars before the scientists. The rock, mineral olivine, is found in New Mexico.

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