Watch Fascinating Illusions and Pareidolia--Top 10 Weirdest Mars Illusions and Pareidolia

Pareidolia  is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern where none actually exists.

Pareidolia can cause people to interpret random images, or patterns of light and shadow, as faces. A psychological phenomenon that stimulates a vague perception is known as Pareidolia. The word ‘Pareidolia’ comes from the Greek language and it means ‘wrong image’. It can be anything that triggers the brain to misperceive the most random image in our surroundings, which can be as random as seeing a face in the clouds, a rabbit in the moon or hearing a hidden message when a recorded audio is played in reverse. Such strange coincidences are inevitable and are impossible to resist.

This occurrence was first associated with psychotic people, but today scientists describe it as a natural tendency of human beings to search for meanings in our environment, since they are hardwired in our brains. Our brains have the ability to distinguish a face from any irrelevant objects in just one-fifth of a second. This activity is performed in an area of the brain called the fusiform gyrus, which arouses the need to recognize familiarly acquainted images. Sometimes, these illusions can be so convincing that people are compelled to turn illusions into delusions.

Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the "man in the moon", the "moon rabbit", and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds.

Top 10 Weirdest Mars Illusions and Pareidolia

Ever since Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli described his discovery of canals on Mars in 1877 and American astronomer Percival Lowell started to map them, we humans have been fascinated with the Red Planet. Although the canals were nothing more than a case of mistaken identity and our technology has come a long way since Schiaparelli and Lowell's telescopes, Mars continues to serve up its fair share of illusions, hoaxes and misunderstandings.In the case of Mars, pareidolia makes us see bigfoot, parrots, flowers and faces in the otherwise barren orange landscape.

10) A Volcanic Elephant

"The Mars Elephant" -- NASA Mars Reconnassance Orbiter (HiRISE), 2012 NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZ

9) Rolling Stones Logo

Rolling Stones Logo -- NASA Mars Reconnassance Orbiter (HiRISE), 2011 NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZ.

8) The "Morchid"

The Mars Flower' -- NASA Mars Science Laboratory, 2012 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

7) The Smiling Crater

The Smiling Crater" -- NASA Mars Global Surveyor, 1999 NASA

6) A Dead Parrot

"The Mars Parrot" -- NASA Mars Global Surveyor, 2002 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

5) Alien Artifacts

Alien artifacts? -- NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, 2008 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

4) Bigfoot! (Littlefoot?)

"Mars Bigfoot" (a.k.a. "Mars Yeti") -- NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, 2008 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

3) The Tree-Lined Hills of Mars

Trees on Mars? -- NASA Mars Reconnassance Orbiter (HiRISE), 2011 NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZ.

2) Mars Rat, Possibly a Gopher

The Mars Rat" -- NASA Mars Science Laboratory, 2012 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

1) The Face of Mars

'The Face of Mars' -- NASA Viking 1 Orbiter, 1976 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

                            FRIENDS!!!!! Are they FASCINATING??????

So, the next time you see a face in your soup or a horse in the clouds, be sure it is nothing, but a Pareidolia occurring to you!

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Ref;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
http://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space