See the Elephant Face on Mars

[Playinghardball]

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an elephant on Mars — well, actually, it's an elephant-shaped lava flow in Elysium Planitia on Mars.

The picture provides one more Martian example of the phenomenon known as "pareidolia," in which our eyes and brain can be coaxed to see familiar patterns in unfamiliar settings. Pareidolia is the best explanation for the Face on Mars, the Mermaid on Mars ... and even the Happy Face on Mars.

The Elephant Face on Mars also provides a glimpse of the geological changes that shaped the Red Planet over the course of billions of years.

"Flood lavas cover extensive areas, and were once thought to be emplaced extremely rapidly, like a flood of water," University of Arizona planetary geologist Alfred McEwen, the principal investigator for the orbiter's HiRISE camera, wrote in an image advisory issued on Wednesday.


http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/07/11064275-see-the-elephant-face-on-mars?lite

[mzteris]

1. but but but

what about JESUS? I thought HIS picture was on Mars!

[Gibby]

2. "It's like an Omen showing our approach to America and Americans, and shit like that." - Replicans

http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=&sa=X&ei=IV-AT_6wNoLo2AXx7NGOBw&ved=0CAsQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEmEXScYtimZfd-wWm_23Hs4q0V6g

[Autumn]

3. It's a sign from God!

He wants us to send ALL republicans to Mars.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. This god

[NYC_SKP]

4. I don't see an elephant. I see a bunny.

Which, given the season, makes this even more of a miracle!

[a kennedy]

6. This is sad....whenever I see an elephant I think the GOP.

That is sad. I should take a break from politics, geez.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. I thought I saw one on a tortilla..but it turned out to be Jesus.

[Ian David]

8. It's Cthulhu! n/t

[lonestarnot]

9. Poor ting had to run away to Mars to get away from the CONs.

[Graybeard]

10. Hey Newt! They want you on Mars.

Forget the Moon Colony. Go to Mars, sculpt your face next to the elephant and you're on your way to your own Mt. Rushmore.

[Nye Bevan]

11. "The Elephants of Mars" by Stephen Moffat.

Has to be a Doctor Who story there.

[66 dmhlt]

12. If Men Are from Mars & Women Are from Venus, Then ...

Democrats Are from Earth & Repubicans Are from Uranus