{"id":767969,"date":"2023-10-05T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767969"},"modified":"2023-10-05T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:00:55","slug":"a-bear-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767969","title":{"rendered":"A Bear on Mars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pia25709orig-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"A geographical feature on Mars looks like the face of a bear in this black and white image acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mro\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a> (MRO) captured this bit of ursine pareidolia on Dec. 12, 2022. While it resembles a bear we might see on Earth, this is actually a hill on Mars with a peculiar shape. A V-shaped collapse structure makes the nose, two craters form the eyes, and a circular fracture pattern shapes the head. The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater.<\/p>\n<p>Launched on August 12, 2015, the MRO studies the history of water on Mars and observes small-scale features on the planet\u2019s surface. <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/space-oddities\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more examples of pareidolia\u2014the human tendency to see recognizable shapes in unfamiliar objects or data\u2014from Mars.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/a-bear-on-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Bear on Mars?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Ames Research Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this bit of ursine pareidolia on Dec. 12, 2022. While it resembles a bear we might see on Earth, this is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767970,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/767970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}