New research into mud in the Gale Crater, a 95-mile-wade basin on Mars, may be evidence that the red planet was once able to sustain life, according to a study published earlier this month.
It was not the composition of the mud that intrigued scientists, but the orderly hexagonal patterns that formed when the mud dried and cracked.
Usually, when mud dries it forms a square pattern, however, when mud goes through a repeated cycle of drying, being exposed to moisture, and drying again, it forms a hexagonal pattern.
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