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Ardennes 2023
Photo Album ‘Ardennes 2023’
Mars donut!
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NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance snapped this photo of a possible meteorite on the Red Planet on June 23, 2023. This image, processed by Stuart Atkinson, is a refined view based on Perseverance’s raw image data.
Flachau 2023
Photo Album ‘Flachau 2023’
Astronomers Just Discovered a 'Bear' on Mars
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Facial pareidolia is the human tendency or illusion of seeing facial structures in an everyday objects – such as seeing the “man in the Moon,” or the face of Jesus on a piece of toast.
Pillars of Creation
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of Creation famous with its first image in 1995, but revisited the scene in 2014 to reveal a sharper, wider view in visible light, shown above at left.
Perseverance Spies The First "Cat" On Mars
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Pareidolia is the peculiar human behavior of seeing meaningful images in random patterns. We see faces in plug sockets, queens in clouds, and the entire world in funny-shaped rocks. Martian rocks are no exception, with everything from the famous “face” that turned out to be a hill to secret doors spotted on the Red Planet.