Last week, the operator of one of NASA's satellites shared a December photo of the red planet's mysterious surface with a unique formation that resembles the face of a teddy bear.
, it was formed by a series of structural changes that happened to line up in just the right way.
The circle encompassing the bear's head is actually a surface fracture that could have been caused by the"settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater," the university said, as the eyes were formed by two craters. The most prominent feature – the bear's snout – appears to be some kind of collapse structure, the school added, or perhaps some kind of volcanic vent with lava or mud flows.
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