Still Waters Posted April 10, 2012 #1 Share Posted April 10, 2012 The dried flood of lava over the surface of Mars has created the spitting image of the eye and trunk of an elephant.The curve of the animal's forehead and the dent of an ear also appear in a new photo taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. "This is a good example of the phenomena 'pareidolia,' where we see things (such as animals) that aren't really there," University of Arizona planetary geologist Alfred McEwen wrote in an update posted on the university's HiRISE website. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted April 10, 2012 #2 Share Posted April 10, 2012 One of the comments was pretty funny, the one that said the 'Elephant' was proof of "Perambulating Prehistoric Plutonian Pachyderms" and wanted NASA to come clean about them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted April 10, 2012 #3 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Good likeness,so now we have a pyramid ,a face,and now an elephant, is Mars trying to tell us something ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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