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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...