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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars (www.sciencedaily.com)

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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.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

inches, foot

Why are we still using dumbass units?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's NASA. By law, they have to use metric.

They might optionally convert it to stupid units for the public. Blame the press.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

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...