NASA's Curiosity spots fish-scale patterns near Antofagasta crater on Mars
NewsBytes | April 24, 2026 3:42 PM CST
NASA's Fraeman probes freeze-thaw, water clues
These patterns could be a big clue about what ancient Mars was like.
On Earth, similar shapes form when things freeze and thaw over time.
Abigail Fraeman and her team at NASA are digging into the images to figure out how these formed.
Plus, Curiosity has found other signs, like boxwork formations, that hint water once flowed here, backing up ideas that Mars might have been much wetter (and maybe more habitable) in Mars's ancient past.
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