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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars

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NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered an astonishing pattern on Mars: a Martian valley blanketed in tiny polygon-shaped fractures forming a honeycomb landscape. ScienceDaily reports each of these patterns measures only a few inches wide, yet they extend across vast stretches of the terrain and even wrap around a nearby twenty-foot-tall butte.

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260731034142.htm

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