A cracked hillside on Mars looks just like the face of a teddy bear
Scientists studying the surface of Mars recently found a piece of the planet smiling back. In an image shared on 25 January, what appears to be the face of an enormous Martian teddy bear, complete with two beady eyes, a button nose and an upturned mouth, grins at the camera of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). This photo of an uncanny assortment of geological formations was snapped on 12 December 2022 as the MRO cruised roughly 156 miles above the Red Planet. It’s likely just a broken-up hill in the centre of an ancient crater. “There’s a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure, two craters and a circular fracture pattern,” said NASA, “The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater.”