Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons"

In its 13th year on Mars, the rover captured a 360-degree panorama of the Valle Grande on June 19, spanning a butte named Miraflores.

Picture a vast field of honeycombed polygonal rocks stretching to the horizon in an otherworldly valley. NASA's Curiosity rover did, and the Valle Grande, as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is calling it, is the latest fascinating spot to be imaged by the rover, now in its 13th year of trundling across the Martian landscape. The rover has seen small pa…