On December 12 , from 156 miles above the surface of Mars , the HiRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a rummy sight : the side of a bear , peering up from the crust of the Red Planet .
Okay , it ’s just a natural stone formation , but it bear a strong resemblance to an ursine face . A rotary break outline ’s the chief , while two little twin Crater are the oculus .
concord to a University of Arizonarelease , the bear ’s snout and hole are composed of a cinque - shaped collapse structure , and the abstract of its face may be due to the settling of deposit into a subterraneous impact volcanic crater . The squad suggested the collapse construction may be a volcanic or clay vent .
Yep, that totally looks like a bear.Image:NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
This is hardly the first metre something on Mars has looked like funnily familiar . ( This was always bound to find , asour brain love to see faces . ) Back in 1976 , the Viking 1 spacecraft spotted aneerie rock formationthat looked like a human nerve about 2 miles long , in a neighborhood of Mars call Cydonia . Images of the same social organisation in 2001from the Mars Global Surveyor bring out that the human face was more a production of Viking 1 ’s relatively piteous resolution .
Last year , the internet was agog overa ‘ room access ’ on Mars — never mind that the rock and roll organization that resemble a room access was only about a foot marvellous . We’ve also spottedapparent spoons , lights , blueberries , bones , and a woman . All just tricks of rock and roll , light , and perspective .
Since Mars is under constant surveillance — on the aerofoil and from above — it ’s no surprisal that these ocular illusions periodically emerge from the barren , rocky surface .
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