Mickey Mouse Crater on Mercury
NASA’s messenger spacecraft, in order around the planet Mercury, has found this giant crater (about 105 km wide) topped with two smaller impact basins that come together to form the recognizable Mickey Mouse shape. Messenger (short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) mission scientists said:
The shadowing helps define the striking ‘Mickey Mouse’ resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters over Mercury’s long geologic history.
This view of Mickey is a good example of pareidolia (another being the famous ‘face on Mars’), a phenomenon in which the human brain recognizes familiar shapes and characterizations in random images.
Image Source: Flickr
OMG, Hidden Mickey on Mercury. I CAN’T ESCAPE! WHY?!