{"id":115586,"date":"2024-10-18T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T07:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115586"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T07:20:52","slug":"eerie-discovery-on-mars-looks-exactly-like-a-human-face-sciencealert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115586","title":{"rendered":"Eerie Discovery on Mars Looks Exactly Like a Human Face : ScienceAlert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" data-linkid=\"73083\" data-postid=\"140905\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">Mars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/lifeless-objects-stare-at-you-everywhere-a-new-study-explains-why-they-won-t-quit\">pareidolia<\/a> strikes again. An image captured by the Perseverance rover in the course of its duties is one of the grisliest yet: it looks, for all the world, like a desiccated, decaying human head, severed from any body, just withering away under the harsh light of the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a human head, you may be relieved (or dismayed) to know. It is \u2013 like most things on Mars that isn&#8217;t a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mars-satellite-has-taken-amazing-pics-of-a-massive-crater-full-of-martian-ice\">ice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-finally-know-what-s-going-on-with-that-weird-long-recurring-cloud-on-mars\">cloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/perseverance-captures-a-1-2-mile-high-dust-devil-whirling-across-mars\">dust<\/a>, or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-the-deal-with-this-weird-hole-on-mars\">nifty hole<\/a> \u2013 a rock, one that so happens to look like another thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mars2020\/multimedia\/raw-images\/ZR0_1282_0780746892_644EBY_N0600390ZCAM09338_1100LMJ\">This particular rock<\/a> was photographed on 27 September 2024, and monstrous head aside, it looks like a chunk of sedimentary sandstone not unlike other rocks around it. Which isn&#8217;t unusual for Mars, especially where water is once thought to have flowed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_140914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140914\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/head-on-mars.jpg\" alt=\"This Eerie Rock Looks Like a Severed Head Just Hanging Out on Mars\" width=\"642\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/head-on-mars.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/head-on-mars-561x415.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/head-on-mars-600x444.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The image captured by Perseverance using its Mastcam-Z on 27 September 2024. (<a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mars2020\/multimedia\/raw-images\/ZR0_1282_0780746892_644EBY_N0600390ZCAM09338_1100LMJ\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The thing that makes it unusual is its shape: the way it is weathered, and its orientation to the camera, make it look like a head, laying on its side, showing similarities to a brow ridge, nose, mouth, and chin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/lifeless-objects-stare-at-you-everywhere-a-new-study-explains-why-they-won-t-quit\">Pareidolia<\/a>, or the identification of meaningful shapes and images in random objects and arrangements, is surprisingly common among pictures of Mars. So far, we&#8217;ve found rocks that look like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-just-discovered-a-bear-on-mars\">bear&#8217;s face<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-the-truth-about-that-photo-of-mushrooms-growing-on-mars\">fungus<\/a>, a carved image of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/so-called-warrior-woman-isn-t-evidence-of-an-alien-civilisation-on-mars\">warrior<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/articles\/1305\">teeny tiny Bigfoot<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marscuriosity\/status\/639146036330545152\">spoon<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/no-this-2014-mars-photo-does-not-show-a-thigh-bone\">femur<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-entomologist-is-trying-to-convince-us-that-mars-is-covered-in-bugs\">bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thought to happen when your eyes see an arrangement of shadows or objects or shapes, and some parts of your brain that process visual information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6290235\/\">jump to conclusions<\/a> before the rest of your gray matter catches up, and it absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44472650@N08\/36732746501\">happens here on Earth too<\/a>. There&#8217;s even a special nub of tissue devoted to the rapid identification of faces, contained within the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fusiform_face_area\">fusiform gyrus<\/a> deep within the brain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_140916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140916\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/badlands-guardian.jpg\" alt=\"This Eerie Rock Looks Like a Severed Head Just Hanging Out on Mars\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/badlands-guardian.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/badlands-guardian-554x415.jpg 554w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/10\/badlands-guardian-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Badlands Guardian in Alberta, Canada, as it appeared on Google Earth in 2006. (Haas et al., <a href=\"https:\/\/journalofscientificexploration.org\/index.php\/jse\/article\/view\/2423\"><em>J. Sci. Explor.<\/em><\/a>, 2024)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Take a look through Onformative&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/onformative.com\/work\/google-faces\/\">Google Faces project<\/a>, to identify face-like shapes in Google Earth images. The <a href=\"https:\/\/journalofscientificexploration.org\/index.php\/jse\/article\/view\/2423\">Badlands Guardian<\/a> is a particularly famous example. Other examples include what look like human faces spotted on <a href=\"https:\/\/earth-our-home.siggraph.org\/pareidolia\/\">single grains of sand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty cool coincidence that a rock on Mars can be eroded in the shapes and proportions of a humanoid head, but that&#8217;s all it is. To date, there remains no evidence that complex life ever emerged on, or visited, the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity is hoping to change that, with future crewed missions to Mars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-nasa-just-announced-its-bold-new-plan-to-send-humans-to-the-moon-and-mars\">being planned<\/a>. We might just be the aliens that leave mysterious objects behind, to baffle other alien explorers, far into the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/eerie-discovery-on-mars-looks-exactly-like-a-human-face\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars pareidolia strikes again. 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