A broken hill, an ancient crater and the human tendency to find faces everywhere may explain the teddy bear on Mars.
Scientists studying the surface of Mars recently found a piece of the rocky planet smiling back at them.
What's really going on here? It's likely just a broken-up hill in the center of an ancient crater, according to a statement posted to UA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera blog. Viewers may see a bear's face emerge from a collection of dusty rocks and crevices thanks to a phenomenon called pareidolia, a psychological tendency that leads people to find significance in random images or sounds.
Space provides endless fodder for pareidolia. Take this nebula that sort of looks like the city-smashing monster Godzilla, or this Martian rock formation that NASA briefly mistook for the meeping Muppet Beaker.
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