Happy face

So today I was looking at the well known "face on mars", and apparently it doesn't look anything like the orginal image well photographed at higher resolution


However, what does look like a face is the Galle crater - it looks remarkably similar to those 1970s smileys you used to see everywhere and which are nowadays overused as emoticons. NASA has a discussion about the whole thing here. But theres an even better discussion here.




In other news, I found this random photo of a fish with what look like arms and legs. There was a bit of a discussion as to whether or not it was a fake photo or not, some suggesting it was mocked up on photoshop. But it seems it is a real animal, called a axolotl. Not only that, but while they are relatively rare in the wild, but they are quite numerous in captivity and you can actually buy one for around £20.