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A “bear” on Mars? The curious photo that NASA took on the red planet

A “bear” on Mars?  The curious photo that NASA took on the red planet

researchers of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa, in English) detected some images that attracted attention, in which “the image of a bear” appears, as they announced.

The image was taken on December 12 through technology Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). For the week with the figure of a bear in a short time it went viral on social networks

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It would be, according to information from specialists, a disintegrated hill inside an ancient crater. “There is a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (in relation to what would be the nose), two craters (eyes) and a circular pattern (head),” reported a statement from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). ) ).

Alfred McEwen, one of the HiRISE researchers, explained that “andThe circular fracture pattern could be due to the settlement of a deposit on top of a buried impact crater.”. “Perhaps the proboscis of the suspected animal is a volcanic or mud vent and the deposit could be lava or mud flows as well,” she remarked.

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This is not the first time that an image similar to that of a living being has been recorded on Mars. In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft detected a plateau that resembled a human face. This was nearly two miles across from end to end, in a region of Mars called Cydonia.

In 1997 scientists found a large rock on Mars which they called “Pooh Bear” (Pooh Bear), where the image also resembled a bear.

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