{"id":3927232,"date":"2026-07-29T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-field-of-honeycomb-textures\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:03:06","slug":"curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-field-of-honeycomb-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-field-of-honeycomb-textures\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Mars rover discovers field of honeycomb textures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover recently began climbing a Martian valley nicknamed &#8220;Valle Grande,&#8221; it sent back images that were a familiar sight to mission scientists: honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5\u20133 inches (4\u20138 centimeters) across. The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-curiosity-mars-rover-field-honeycomb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover recently began climbing a Martian valley nicknamed &#8220;Valle Grande,&#8221; it sent back images that were a familiar sight to mission scientists: honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5\u20133 inches (4\u20138 centimeters) across. The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}