NASA’s Curiosity rover found a ‘sea of polygons’ on Mars

The latest find from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is simply a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian vale called Valle Grande. As Gizmodo reports, Curiosity has snapped pictures of the antithetic terrain texture before, called polygonal fractures, each astir 1.5 to 3 inches wide, but NASA says it's antecedently lone recovered them successful tiny patches, "nothing connected the standard discovered successful Valle Grande."

Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama of the "sea of polygons" connected June 19th and 20th (Martian sols 4,930 and 4,931) that shows the texture spreading retired successful each directions. Project idiosyncratic Ashwin Vasavada says the Curiosity squad "measur …

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