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Mars landforms show a bear in adorable NASA satellite image

The cuddly face is the result of three nearby unique landforms

Newsroom January 31 01:00

The Red Planet’s rocky surface is pocked with craters, canyons, and volcanoes that make for an awe-inspiring sight. The unique topography can sometimes result in downright weird and even eerie landforms, like the human visage illusion created by a rock formation that was captured by the Viking 1 spacecraft in 1976.

Now, Nasa has spotted arguably the cutest bit of terrain on Mars: A piece of the planet that looks like the face of a bear. A new image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a teddy bear martian apparently grinning back at Nasa’s satellite.

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The cuddly face is the result of three nearby unique landforms, according to the University of Arizona, which operate’s the MRO’s powerful camera (called the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HIRISE).

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