Mars reveals amazing figures on its soil.
NASA has unveiled a snapshot showing what looks like a bear's head on the ground of the red planet.
The photo was published last Wednesday on the Twitter account of HiRISE, the high-resolution camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter space probe, explains
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HiPOD: A Bear on Mars?
This feature looks a bit like a bear's face.
What is it really?
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The nose is a collapsed hill
The image is quite stunning: a well-defined head, two holes that make you think of two eyes, and lower down, a mouth and a nose.
“A bear on Mars?
“, laughs the Twitter account, which asks the question of what it is really about.
However, it is enough to observe the elements well to have a rational answer.
So did Alfred McEwen, a world-renowned planetary geologist who leads the HiRISE program.
"There is a hill with a collapsed V-shaped structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular pattern (the head)", specifies the specialist on the site of the University of Arizona .
The circular shape could come from the covering of a crater by lava or mud, specifies
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