Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons"

Boing Boing reports that NASA's Curiosity rover has imaged a vast field of honeycomb-textured polygonal rocks stretching across a Martian valley. The region, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is calling Valle Grande, represents the latest fascinating imagery from the rover, now in its thirteenth year of operation on Mars.

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