As a NASA orbiter turned its camera to the Martian surface, the face of a bear seemed to be looking back.A camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, called the High Resolution Imaging ...

Some have said they've spotted the face of Mahatma Gandhi on the Google Mars map. The most iconic example of pareidolia is the "Face on Mars," a picture snapped in 1976 by NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft.

A ‘smiley face’ has been discovered on Mars- and scientists sat it could contain traces of extraterrestrial life. The face, composed of two circles and a line inside a circle, can only be seen ...

In July, the rover found another animal-themed rock on Mars, one with a leopard-like pattern. The sideways face is just the latest in a series of oddities spotted in Perseverance’s raw images of ...

Also read: Ancient Babylonian map of the world unraveled ... discoveries in the ongoing search for signs of life on Mars. The smiley-face formation, visible only through infrared imaging, may ...

like the smiley face, were left on the surface of the planet as the water disappeared over time. Scientists suggest the salt deposits could house ancient bacteria from an era when Mars may have ...

when Mars was only fleetingly in focus. By the mid-19th century, the quest to map the Martian surface had reached a fever pitch. Through a telescope, its milky, shadowy face swam in and out of ...