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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, like in the cloud clouds or the cosmos. Here are some of our favorite examples of pareidolia in space: go.nasa.gov/3jIDzCp
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Space Oddities: NASA Sorts Fact From Fantasy | Multimedia Section – NASA Mars Exploration

This page explains the phenomenon of pareidolia, and provides images as examples of how humans on Earth have a natural tendency to interpret some objects on Mars and elsewhere in the cosmos as familiar items seen on Earth.
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