April 10th, 2012
We've been seeking them out for years, decades, eons perhaps: life forms on Mars. Martians if you will. And it seems like - in the past week - scientists have come closer to this dream than ever before, after a... wait for it... ELEPHANT made its celestial appearance on the red planet.
Okay, okay, it's actually more like a lava imprint of an elephant face, but still, the side profile of a wrinkly trunk, small eye, fly-away ear and smiley mouth is definitely something to write home about.
Huffington Post reports that "NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of a lava flood on Mars' Elysium Planitia region that looks distinctly like an elephant's face." The photo was released last Wednesday by NASA.
Similar to the case of the much more famous Man in the Moon, this photo has been labeled a classic instance of "pareidolia," a phenomenon where people perceive familiar scenes in otherwise unremarkable images.
A blog post on Krugerpark.com has summarized the aptness of this discovery poignantly, saying : "Maybe the giant image of an elephant, looking down on us... is just the thing we need to remind us of how precious the elephants on earth are."
They added that 2011 was one of the worst recorded years for the world's elephant population as the demand for ivory is escalating. In Kenya alone 278 of these gentle gargantuan were killed for their tusks.
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User Comments
WvHNmPtCXLPbmqKnCsSubmitted by Souhila on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 05:26. |
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Elephant on MarsSubmitted by Joe on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 21:43. |
It's the 10th of April .......Not the 1st of April.... |
Thats what they said...Submitted by J-Man on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 15:07. |
@ Thats hilarious... "Okay, okay, it's actually more like a lava imprint of an elephant face," ... and "snapped a photo of a lava flood on Mars' Elysium Planitia region that looks distinctly like an elephant's face".... soooo... |
Thats hilariousSubmitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 14:31. |
You can't create an article saying we have found an elephant on mars, People see Jesus in toast all the time, that is not evidence of anything. IT RESEMBLES an elephant and could possibly be, but there is no scientific proof, you want to go find an imprint of Jesus too while you are at it? And maybe while you are at that you can find all my missing pairs of socks cause i'd love to know where that went!! |
elephant on MarsSubmitted by rob on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:55. |
I can give you a picture just like that concocted on my p.c. |
