NASA finds Martian ‘spiderwebs’: What it means

(NewsNation) — NASA‘s “Curiosity” Mars rover has now captured photos of Martian rock formations resembling spiderwebs.

Before you think of intergalactic spiderlike creatures, the geological frameworks, called boxwork, are called spiderwebs because of what they look like from space.

The spiderwebs are low ridges with sandy hollows in between and crisscross the red planet’s surface. These webs suggest water flowed on Mars more recently than scientists earlier thought, raising new questions about how long life could have survived on the Red Planet.

Tina Seeger of Rice University, one of the mission scientists leading the boxwork investigation, joined “Jesse Weber Live” on Thursday to discuss the revelation.

“These ridges are maybe two parking spaces wide, and they stand 3........

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