Mars saw the elephant

Dried lava has formed on the surface of Mars a figure resembling the outlines of eyes and an elephant's trunk. Photos showing this unusual object was made by the probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and published by the University of Arizona (University of Arizona), United States. "This is a good example of the so-called visual illusions, when a person sees things (eg animals), which the image is actually not" - said the representative of the university, space geologist Alfred McEvoy (McEwen) .

Photo "elephant" was made on plain Elysium (Elysium Planitia), which are the youngest formation of Martian lava. It not yet determined how fast the lava has shaped the surface of Mars. In case of the formation of the surface of the Earth it took a few decades, but there is evidence that Mars this process was much faster. Image of an elephant is not the only thing that has been found on Mars. So in 1976, Viking 1 station made a picture "Faces of Mars" - education, which resembled a stone statue of a man, is a remnant of the array in the Cydonia region on Mars.

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Source: mirfactov.com/