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NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape and even wrap around a nearby 20-foot-tall butte.

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[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

The image doesn’t really look like columnar basalt, but I could be wrong.

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