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The Face on Mars
Credit: NASA
Mars is a weird place, and has long been a source of optical illusions. Here: You see the famed Face on Mars, as seen by NASA’s Viking spacecraft in 1976.…Read More »
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Floating Spoon on Mars Circled
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Is that really a floating spoon on Mars? No, but this photo from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity this week does show a weird rock that looks like a floating…Read More » spoon. It was likely sculpted by Martian winds, NASA says. Less «
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Curiosity’s Spoon on Mars: Raw Image
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
This photo by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the raw image of Mars that includes a spoon-shaped rock at the lower center. Curiosity took this photo with…Read More » its Mastcam camera on Aug. 30, 2015, the rover’s 1,089th day on Mars. Less «
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Martian Rock “Person”
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University
NASA’S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Spirit spent the closing months of 2007.
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Mars canals diagram
Credit: Tom Ruen, Eugene Antoniadi, Lowell Hess, Roy A. Gallant, HST, NASA
(Left) This 1894 map of Mars was prepared by Eugene Antoniadi and redrawn by Lowell Hess. (Right) A Hubble Space Telescope photo of Mars shows the modern view of our neighboring planet.
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Lowell’s Mars Canals
Credit: Public domain
Martian canals as depicted by Percival Lowell.
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Rat on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Once seen, it cannot be unseen. The “Mars rat” captured by Curiosity’s lens.
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Mars ‘Lizard’ Photographed by Curiosity Rover
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
This image taken by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Jan. 10, 2013 shows a rock that looks a bit like an iguana (upper right).
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Gandhi face on Mars
Credit: Matteo Ianneo/ESA/Google Maps/Before It’s News
A Martian surface feature, as seen on the Google Mars database, that one man says looks like the profile of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Flash of Light Spotted on Mars Close-Up
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A bright flash of light appears to be visible in this image taken by the right-side navigation camera on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on April 3, 2014.
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Flash of Light Spotted on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A bright flash of light appears to be visible in the distance in this image taken by the right-side navigation camera on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on April 3, 2014.
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Mars Face Makeover: Controversial Formation Observed from New Angles
A perspective view showing the so-called ‘Face on Mars’ located in the Cydonia region. The image shows a remnant massif thought to have formed via landslides…Read More » and an early form of debris apron formation. The massif is characterized by a western wall that has moved downslope as a coherent mass. The image, created with data from the Mars Express orbiter, was released Sept. 21, 2006. Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum), Malin Space Science Systems Less «
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Bunny Rabbit on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL
This photo from NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity shows what at first glance appears to be a bunny rabbit head on the Red Planet. The image was released in…Read More » March 2004 in the “mission success” panorama, and the bunny is an illusion likely created by a piece of Vectran cloth from Opportunity’s lander. Less «
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Gandhi face on Mars, high resolution
Credit: ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
Photo taken of the Gandhi face geologic feature by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Gandhi face on Mars, low-resolution
Credit: ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
Photo taken of the Gandhi face geologic feature by the Mars Express Orbiter.
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Mars Rover Spirit’s ‘Phallic’ Tracks
Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
NASA’s Spirit Mars rover created these tracks shortly after touching down in 2004 to execute a turn, not amuse its handlers.
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Strange Mars Photo Includes Tantalizing ‘Tree’ Illusion
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
This new image of Mars taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface…Read More » are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010. Less «
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Secret Mars ‘Bio Base’?
Credit: Google
A mysterious object spotted on the surface of Mars by David Martines while he was perusing the planet using Google Mars, a mapping program. What Martines…Read More » described as a Martian “Bio Base” is actually an artifact caused by a cosmic ray interference, experts say. Less «
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Happy Face on Mars Exposed
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
A close-up view (from above) the Martian Happy Face, Crater Galle, in false-color.
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Psychics Claim of Evidence of Life on Mars Debunked
Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
This image of Mars taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows what some psychics have claimed to be evidence of life on Mars.
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