Now comes one of the most curious items to be photographed by the rover - a human face seemingly carved into a rock. The ...

As humans, we are naturally inclined to recognize patterns, often imbuing them with meaning — a psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia. This can manifest as seeing the face of an old man ...

New research out of Australia sheds light on the phenomena known as pareidolia ... to do as humans is to see faces everywhere, on the rock face, in a tree, because faces are inherently important ...

Pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing patterns ... such recognizable and often meaningful patterns […] We see the face of an old man in the knots of a tree, the shape of an animal in the clouds ...