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The Woman on Mars

The supposed woman on Mars, with zoomed up view inset. — The supposed woman on Mars, with zoomed up view inset. Image: (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Gizmodo)

NASA’s Spirit rover captured a stunning panoramic view within Gusev Crater on September 5, 2007, resulting in the spooky appearance of a female figure wearing a dress, her arm extended horizontally. Like the squirrel on Mars, however, a view in context reveals the woman to be a fortuitously positioned rock. That said, it is a pretty cool—and haunting—illusion.

A similar sighting happened in 2015, when Curiosity spotted a figure-like entity in the rocks.

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