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Home This stereo view shows an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges intersect at angles forming corners of polygons. It combines two observations from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) This stereo view shows an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges intersect at angles forming corners of polygons. It combines two observations from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)

This stereo view shows an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges intersect at angles forming corners of polygons. It combines two observations from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)

This stereo view shows an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges intersect at angles forming corners of polygons. It combines two observations from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)

This stereo view shows an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges intersect at angles forming corners of polygons. It combines two observations from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)

This view from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges, some as tall as a 16-story building, intersect at angles forming corners of polygons. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)
This photograph from Shiprock in northwestern New Mexico shows a ridge roughly 30 feet (about 10 meters) tall that formed from lava filling an underground fracture then resisting erosion better than the material around it did. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)