Pareidolia: Why you see faces on Mars

As a little kid, I remember a TV show hosted by Lenard Nimoy called “In search of”. I was fascinated by all the hints at evidence for things beyond our normal experience; hints that seemed even more true because of their proximity to clearly academic facts.

I don’t know if it was during an episode of this show, or in something I read because of this show, but it was at this young age that I first encountered an image taken by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter of an unusual mountain that is often referred to as just “The Face on Mars.” And I’ve been watching what we learn…