TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Astronomers at the University of Arizona recently caught a glimpse of Mars at the perfect angle looking like a bear's face.
According to the University of Arizona, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter experts clarified theorized the following:
The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit of a barrier impact crater.
Maybe the nose is a volcanic or mud vent?
And the deposit could be lava or mud flows?
Maybe just grin and bear it?
The university categorizes it as "bright patches in terra sienum." To read more about their process involving high resolution anaglyphs, please visit UAHiRise.org.
HiPOD: A Bear on Mars?
— HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) (@HiRISE) January 25, 2023
This feature looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really?
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