On the surface of the Red Planet, NASA scientists have discovered a strange feature that eerily resembles the face of a grizzly bear.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the peculiar scene from a distance of 251 kilometers. The image was captured by the spacecraft’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, the most potent instrument ever sent to another planet.
The mysterious formation’s true nature, according to NASA, is that it resembles a bear’s face. What exactly is it? There is a hill with a circular fracture pattern, two craters for eyes, and a V-shaped collapse structure for the nose (the head).
The circular fracture pattern may be the result of a deposit settling over an underground impact crater, according to the study. Perhaps the deposit is lava or mud flows, and the nose represents a volcanic or mud vent. They advised me to “maybe just grin and bear it.”
