Cracks on Mars hint at dried-up lakes
The polygons in Coyote Dry Lake in California’s Mojave Desert (left panel), which span 50 to 80 metres across, are closer in size to the Martian crater polygons (right panel). Coyote Dry Lake dried up thousands of years ago. Giant cracks that crisscross to form polygons have been imaged on the floors of hundreds of …