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NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a 360-degree panorama of Valle Grande revealing a vast sea of polygonal fractures across the Martian landscape, including around the 20-foot Miraflores butte. Scientists are studying how these honeycomb patterns formed and what they imply about ancient water, chemistry, and Mars’s potential to have supported microbial life.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured a 360‑degree panorama of a vast honeycomb‑textured field in Valle Grande—the largest patch of polygonal fractures NASA has found on Mars—each polygon about 1.5 to 3 inches wide. Scientists are analyzing their shapes and chemistry to understand how they formed and what they reveal about Mars’ watery past, with the texture spanning outward in all directions in a panorama captured on sols 4,930–4,931.
NASA’s Curiosity rover stitched 340 images into a 360-degree panorama of Valle Grande on Mount Sharp’s foothills, revealing a vast sea of honeycomb-like polygonal fractures across the Martian plain—evidence of ancient water activity and a clue to Mars’s past habitability.
NASA's Curiosity rover has found a field of honeycomb-like polygons in the Martian valley Valle Grande. The polygons measure about 1.3 to 3 inches across, and scientists still don’t know how they formed; potential explanations include ancient wet-dry cycles or sediment processes, and researchers hope the data will reveal clues about Mars’ past climate and geology.