
Curiosity Rover Captures Sand-Capped Butte Amid Martian Landscape
NASA's Mars rover photographs a 6-meter-tall butte with honeycomb-like polygon terrain in Gale Crater on its extended mission.
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NASA's Mars rover photographs a 6-meter-tall butte with honeycomb-like polygon terrain in Gale Crater on its extended mission.

Polygonal fractures stretching as far as the eye can see in Gale Crater leave scientists puzzled over their formation, hinting at a wetter Martian past.