NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Giant Martian ‘Spiderwebs’: A New Clue to Ancient Life?

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Ridgewood NJ, NASA’s Curiosity rover has just given humanity its first up-close look at a bizarre, alien landscape on Mars that scientists are calling “boxwork” formations. From high above in orbit, these ridges look like massive, crisscrossing spiderwebs stretching for miles across the Red Planet’s surface.

Now, thanks to Curiosity’s trek through the “sulfate-bearing unit” on Mount Sharp, we finally know what these structures are—and they suggest that Mars stayed “wet” much longer than previously believed.

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