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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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[–] 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.