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Curiosity Mars rover discovery ‘took our breath away’: NASA
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Christl Dabu
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NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered a vast field of honeycomb-like polygonal fractures in a Martian valley. Scientists are analyzing the chemistry of these formations to determine if they were created by environmental processes or ancient water activity.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has noticed little patches of “honeycomb-like textures” on Mars several times before, but for a few days in June, it spotted a “sea” of them that stretched as far as the mobile science laboratory could see.
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