NASA Rover Captured A ‘Mouse’ on Mars, UFO Enthusiasts Claim

NASA Rover Captured A ‘Mouse’ on Mars, UFO Enthusiasts Claim
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Jack Phillips
11/26/2015
Updated:
11/26/2015

A "spoon" on Mars (NASA)
A "spoon" on Mars (NASA)

According to a new study, Mars has always been a cold wasteland.

Nature Communications said that Mars never had much of an atmosphere, as some have theorized.

“I think it clarifies the picture in our head that maybe Mars was always cold and arid,” Bethany Ehlmann, a professor of planetary science at Caltech and coauthor of the study, told Popular Mechanics.

What is actually happening with the mouse sighting is most likely just another case of pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus where the mind sees a familiar pattern of something where none exists. The same concept applies to seeing faces in random objects like wooden doors. It happens often with rocks:

 

 

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