NASA's Curiosity rover has captured close‑up views of sprawling, web-like rock formations on Mars that look like giant spiderwebs from orbit and may offer new clues about the Red Planet's watery past.
The intricate formations are part of a boxwork region — networks of low ridges roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows between them — that Curiosity has been exploring for months on the slopes of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. The rover captured panoramic images of the area with its Mastcam on Sept. 26, 2025, providing scientists with an unprecedented look at the planet's unusual terrain, according to a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
