Mars Rover Discovers Geometric Shapes On Red Planet, First Time In Scientific History

Publish date: 2024-05-05

Polygons beneath the surface are really common on Mars. In fact, they’re common on Earth, too.

However, this is the first time they’ve been found at Utopia Planitia, a large plain within Utopia and the largest recognized impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System.

The scientific community believes that these wedges, ranging from mere centimeters to tens of meters across, were formed by the repeated cycles of freezing and thawing, which also implies that Mars featured a strong paleoclimatic variability at low-to-mid latitudes, possibly due to its high obliquity.

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