NASA's Curiosity rover began its ascent through a Martian geographical feature called Valle Grande. During its journey, the rover's cameras recorded a field with honeycomb-like soil structures, identified by scientists as polygonal fractures..
Although the US space explorer had previously located this type of surface texture, the project team had not found such a large area of land with this particular feature..
NASA mission specialists are studying visual samples to determine the origin of the texture. Previous research on similar formations suggests that these cracks arise from dried mud, indicating the existence of warm and cold climate cycles in the region's history. Red planet.
