'Tadpole' Rock on Mars | NASA Mars Curiosity Rover
"Been following Mars missions since the Viking days, and I've seen a lot of weird rocks in that time, out on the plains, inside craters, on mountain tops, but this one, imaged by [the Mars Curiosity rover] is just . . . nuts. Beautiful, but nuts . . . "
—Gill Stuart Atkinson - Citizen Scientist (Twitter)
Pareidolia. Dictionaries describe this term as a human tendency to see recognizable shapes in objects or data that are otherwise not familiar to us.
Learn about NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover:
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/home/
Learn more about pareidolia and Martian "space oddities:"
https://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/space-oddities/
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M.
Image Date: Curiosity MSL - Sol 3385 - MastCam
Release Date: February 15, 2022
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