NASA’s Mars Reconaissance Orbiter has been circling the red planet since 2006. This remarkable machine has been transmitting high resolution images of Mars since that time.
A pun-laden Universe Today article shares an image recently released by NASA and its partners. It shows what appears to be the face of a cute bear carved into the Martian surface.
Astronomer Alfred McEwen explains that the circle is probably the ridge of a buried impact crater. The nose is either volcanic mud or a vent for volcanic mud. The entire formation is about 5 kilometers across.
-via Study Finds | Photo: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech/University of Arizona