Josie Ford
Mars bears
A smiley-faced bear, in a NASA satellite’s image of the surface of Mars (above), is inspiring smiles on the faces of humans on the surface of Earth.
Similar discoveries have garnered two Ig Nobel prizes. Richard Hoagland was awarded the 1997 Ig Nobel prize for astronomy for his work, in which he claimed to have identified giant artificial structures in NASA photos, including a human face on Mars. Later, others realised that the face was just made up of shadows cast by hills. The reinterpretation was efficiently summarised in a Â鶹´«Ã½ headline: “Martian conspiracy theorists lose face”…
