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A bear on Mars?

A bear on Mars?
A bear on Mars? In late January 2023, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a feature on Mars that bears the uncanny resemblance to… well, a bear! The mission team thinks the nose may be a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure, the eyes may be craters, and the head may be a circular fracture pattern. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona