NASA has discovered rocks that look like a teddy bear on Mars (2 photos)
In an image released Jan. 25 by the University of Arizona (UA), what appears to be the face of a huge Martian teddy bear with with two beady eyes, a button nose and a smiling mouth, smirks at NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) camera. 
According to UA, this photo of supernatural variety geological formations was taken on December 12, 2022, when MRO flew about 156 miles (251 kilometers) over the Red Planet.
What is really happening in the picture? According to the statement, published on the UA High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment blog (HiRISE), most likely just a ruined hill in the center of an ancient crater.
“There is a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (nose), two craters (eyes) and a circular fault pattern (head), — says in the statement. - The circular nature of the destruction can be caused sedimentation over a buried impact crater." 
Viewers can watch a bear face emerging from accumulations of dusty rocks and crevices, thanks to a phenomenon called pareidolia, a psychological tendency that makes people find meaning in random images or sounds.
Space provides endless food for pareidolia. Let's take to for example, this nebula (accidental emission of gas and dust), which looks like a city-destroying Godzilla monster, or is it Martian a rock formation that NASA briefly mistook for Beaker from The Muppet Show.
Both Beaker and Newly Discovered Martian Teddy Bear were photographed by HiRISE, one of six scientific instruments on board MRO. HiRISE has been taking pictures of the Red Planet from orbit since 2006 and, according to UA, is the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet.
We believe that in the future, Mars will give us many more incredible images, because close attention is now riveted to the planet as ordinary amateur enthusiasts, and advanced space agencies.
