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Mars Rover Spirit's 'Phallic' Tracks
Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
NASA's Spirit Mars rover created these tracks shortly after touching down in 2004 to execute a turn, not amuse its handlers.
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Bunny Rabbit on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL
This photo from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows what at first glance appears to be a bunny rabbit head on the Red Planet. The image was released in March 2004 in the "mission success" panorama, and the bunny is an illusion likely created by a piece of Vectran cloth from Opportunity's lander.
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The Face on Mars
Credit: NASA
The original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, in grey scale, on July, 25 1976. Image shows a remnant massif located in the Cydonia region.
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Gandhi face on Mars
Credit: Matteo Ianneo/ESA/Google Maps/Before It's News
A Martian surface feature, as seen on the Google Mars database, that one man says looks like the profile of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Gandhi face on Mars, low-resolution
Credit: ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
Photo taken of the Gandhi face geologic feature by the Mars Express Orbiter.
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Gandhi face on Mars, high resolution
Credit: ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
Photo taken of the Gandhi face geologic feature by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Secret Mars 'Bio Base'?
Credit: Google
A mysterious object spotted on the surface of Mars by David Martines while he was perusing the planet using Google Mars, a mapping program. What Martines described as a Martian "Bio Base" is actually an artifact caused by a cosmic ray interference, experts say.
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Martian Rock "Person"
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University
NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Spirit spent the closing months of 2007.
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Happy Face on Mars Exposed
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
A close-up view (from above) the Martian Happy Face, Crater Galle, in false-color.
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Lowell's Mars Canals
Credit: Public domain
Martian canals as depicted by Percival Lowell.
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Mars Face Makeover: Controversial Formation Observed from New Angles
A perspective view showing the so-called 'Face on Mars' located in the Cydonia region. The image shows a remnant massif thought to have formed via landslides and an early form of debris apron formation. The massif is characterized by a western wall that has moved downslope as a coherent mass. The image, created with data from the Mars Express orbiter, was released Sept. 21, 2006. Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum), Malin Space Science Systems
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Psychics Claim of Evidence of Life on Mars Debunked
Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
This image of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows what some psychics have claimed to be evidence of life on Mars.
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Strange Mars Photo Includes Tantalizing 'Tree' Illusion
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
This new image of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010.
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Mars canals diagram
Credit: Tom Ruen, Eugene Antoniadi, Lowell Hess, Roy A. Gallant, HST, NASA
(Left) This 1894 map of Mars was prepared by Eugene Antoniadi and redrawn by Lowell Hess. (Right) A Hubble Space Telescope photo of Mars shows the modern view of our neighboring planet.
