Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons"
Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons" Rob Beschizza 5:01 pm Thu Jul 30, 2026 Image: NASA Picture a vast field of honeycombed polygonal rocks stretching to the horizon in an otherworldly valley. NASA's Curiosity rover did, and the Valle Grande, as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is calling it, is the latest fascinating spot to be imaged by the rover, now in its 13th year of trundling across the Martian landscape. The rover has seen small patches these fractures before, NASA reports, but never at this scale.
- ▪Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons" Rob Beschizza 5:01 pm Thu Jul 30, 2026 Image: NASA Picture a vast field of honeycombed polygonal rocks stretching to the horizon in an otherworldly valley.
- ▪NASA's Curiosity rover did, and the Valle Grande, as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is calling it, is the latest fascinating spot to be imaged by the rover, now in its 13th year of trundling across the Martian landscape.
- ▪The rover has seen small patches these fractures before, NASA reports, but never at this scale.
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Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons" Rob Beschizza 5:01 pm Thu Jul 30, 2026 Image: NASA Picture a vast field of honeycombed polygonal rocks stretching to the horizon in an otherworldly valley. NASA's Curiosity rover did, and the Valle Grande, as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is calling it, is the latest fascinating spot to be imaged by the rover, now in its 13th year of trundling across the Martian landscape. The rover has seen small patches these fractures before, NASA reports, but never at this scale. In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions for as far as the rover can see.
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