A broken hill, an ancient crater and the human tendency to find faces everywhere may explain the teddy bear on Mars.
This cracked hillside on Mars looks like the face of a teddy bear as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter above the Red Planet.
Scientists studying the surface of Mars recently found a piece of the rocky planet smiling back at them. In an image shared Jan. 25 by The University of Arizona , what appears to be the face of an enormous Martian teddy bear — complete with two beady eyes, a button nose and an upturned mouth — grins at the camera of NASA's
. According to UA, this photo of an uncanny assortment of geological formations was snapped on Dec. 12, 2022, as the MRO cruised roughly 156 miles above the Red Planet.
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