![]() ![]() Follow Natalie Wolchover on Twitter nattyover, then join Life's Little Mysteries on Facebook. After analyzing images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, NASA declared that a detailed analysis of multiple images of this feature reveals a natural looking Martian hill whose illusory. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. It was taken on July 20, 1976, by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on the planet. brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. This story was provided by Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site of LiveScience. This image is the first photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars. By making our neighboring planet visible to everyone, Google Mars will likely increase the frequency of such finds. People have been finding suggestive objects on the surface of Mars for centuries. The somewhat mysterious linear streak that he thought was a building on the Martian surface was later revealed to be a cosmic ray artifact - a distortion arising in the camera that snapped the photo of the surface when an energetic particle zipped through it. In a viral Youtube video, David Martines claimed to have identified a human (or alien) base on the planet, which he dubbed Bio Station Alpha. Last week, a self-described "armchair astronaut" discovered another anomaly while perusing the Google Mars map. Takeo Watanabe of the Boston University Visual Sciences Laboratory put it this way: "We've over-learned human faces so we see them where they aren't." Download Image The Face on Mars This high-resolution image from the Mars Orbiter Camera about the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft shows the famous 'Face on Mars' in detail, clearly showing it to be a natural geological formation. ![]() Face pareidolia happens, scientists say, as a byproduct of our heightened sensitivity to the details of human faces. Human face first seen in 1976 Face on Mars illusion as seen by Viking 1. "Pareidolia" is the scientific term for seeing faces (or other significant objects) where they aren't. ![]() (Image credit: ASU Mars Space Flight Facility) Photo taken of the Gandhi face geologic feature by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. ![]()
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