The Boxwork feature was first viewed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2006, and looks like spiderwebs stretching across the Martian surface.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is wrapping up its time in the Mars Gediz Vallis channel, and is making its way to an area of the Martian surface referred as the Boxwork. The Boxwork feature was first viewed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2006, and looks like spiderwebs stretching across the Martian surface.
Earlier this year, the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image of Mars that sent chills down the spines of those with arachnophobia. What appeared to look like a swarm of spiders across the Martian surface was actually features that form when spring sunshine falls on layers of carbon dioxide deposited during the winter months. Now, NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to head to an area of Mars that looks like spiderwebs stretching across the Martian surface, referred to as the Boxwork.
