Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible
NASA has shared new snaps captured by its Curiosity rover that show a large “field of honeycomb textures” on Mars.Here’s the best of the images Curiosity captured. It shows the honeycomb field, each element of which is four to eight centimeters across.
A close-up of the polygon fractures discovered by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover highlights their honeycomb-like textures
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA doesn’t know how the honeycomb formed, but The Register is willing to rule out space bees because Curiosity has seen this sort of thing before and scientists are pretty sure the patterns are the result of mud drying and cracking during some unknowably distant Martian event.
