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.
Columnar basalt! That means flowing lava at one point on Mars!
Boooo! I was going with my Aliens on Mars theory and you ruined it.
That’s a conclusion the article doesn’t leap to:
What Created the Honeycomb Patterns?
Some polygonal formations previously examined by Curiosity clearly began as cracks in drying mud. However, several different processes can produce this kind of honeycomb appearance.
Repeated warming and cooling can fracture the ground into geometric shapes. Compression may also create similar patterns by forcing water out of sediment after the material becomes buried beneath the surface.
Scientists are now studying the newly discovered formations to determine which of these processes, or possibly a combination of them, shaped the landscape in Valle Grande.
Even Mars knows that hexagons are bestagons.
Hell yeah, that five sided fistagon.
inches, foot
Why are we still using dumbass units?
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I remember an engineer tasked to redesign a piece for a military jet. It was a piece used to refuel the jet while in flight.
Apparently on jet had to perform an emergency landing as they went out of fuel. The injector and the hole were designed by two different teams, one in the US and one in Europe. Apparently nobody told the Europeans that measurements were in inches…
They found the Honeycomb Hideout! Scooby will be thrilled!
