Scratchy circle on cratered Mars surface with what look like two eyes and a snout A bear on Mars? (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona) Posted on 01/27/2023 6:48:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Scratchy circle on cratered Mars surface with what look like two eyes and a snout A bear on Mars? (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona)
Bear Faced Crater On Mars A view of the area on Mars with the bear-like crater. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona)
Facial pareidolia is the human tendency or illusion of seeing facial structures in an everyday objects – such as seeing the "man in the Moon," or the face of Jesus on a piece of toast.
But here's a newly found crater on Mars that might be a case of 'bear-adoilia.'
There's no denying, the crater looks like a bear's face. We've seen some crazy craters on Mars over the years from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) – like the famous smiley face, or an elephant and a bird.
But what could possibly create the weird feature in the middle of the crater that is shaped like a bear's snout?
"There's a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular fracture pattern (the head)," said HiRISE principal investigator Alfred McEwen. "The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater. Maybe the nose is a volcanic or mud vent and the deposit could be lava or mud flows? Maybe just grin and bear it."
Guess we'll just need to go to Mars ourselves one day and explore this crater to find out exactly what makes this crater look like a bear.
I'm sure we'll use the maps created from HiRISE data to get our bearings. Without such a map it would be impawsible, and we'd bearly get a start on such an adventure, and the rest of the trip would be unbearable.
That’s it, just what I needed.
They now have my full support for a manned mission to the Red Planet.
/s
That’s better than I could draw one. Undeniable proof of an alien presence on Mars.
Probably the “greys” just funnin’ with us. Much like crop circles
I think it was a crop circle gone hillariously wrong
Hahahahaha
Excellent
Martians are just screwing with us.
I’ve never seen meteors land in a V formation.
Pretty cool, but the eyes are following me….
Yeah, they usually just fly that way......................
LOL!
Where did you find this one?
Never so it watching Yogi as a kid.
That looks like a volcanic caldera. I believe that Mars was once volcanically active. Many asteroids have “moons”, some more than one, some are binaries, in the sense of two near equal mass objects that are gravitationally bound an orbit their common center of gravity.
Maybe she can find the flag the astronauts planted on it... 👽
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