Putting a face to the name 🌝 ⁣ ⁣ Do you ever see faces in things? That's a phenomenon called pareidolia, and it's when our brains see familiar shapes in objects or data. We often do this when we look up at the sky and see faces or animals in the clouds. And sometimes in the cosmos. Here are some of our favorite examples of pareidolia in space⁣ ⁣ 1) A hill with a V-shaped collapse structure, two craters and a circular fracture pattern — possibly the remains of a buried impact crater — appear to form the face of a bear on the Mars surface. This image was captured by HiRISE aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 12, 2022.⁣ ⁣ 2) NASA's Viking 1 Orbiter spacecraft photographed this region in the northern latitudes of Mars on July 25, 1976. The speckled appearance of the image is due to missing data, called bit errors, caused by problems in transmission of the photographic data from Mars to Earth. Bit errors comprise part of one of the 'eyes' and 'nostrils' on the eroded rock that r...