It looks like there’s a bear’s face on the surface of Mars

Features of a majestic terrestrial animal are bearing their face on the surface of Mars.

Researchers with the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona made the observation.

It may look like a drawing that made by a grade-school student but it bears a striking resemblance to a bear. There are two eyes and a V-shaped structure for the nose, and those facial features have been encircled.

“The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater,” according to the university’s article A Bear on Mars?. “Maybe the nose is a volcanic or mud vent and the deposit could be lava or mud flows?”

HiPOD: A Bear on Mars?

This feature looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really?

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