An Italian named Matteo Ianneo claims to have found a mound on Mars that looks like a the face of Mahatma Gandhi, Space.com reported.

He is one of space enthusiasts who are looking for interesting objects using Google Mars, a new online map pieced together from satellite images of the Red Planet.


In the past few weeks he claims to have found vegetation, entrances to underground tunnels and city ruins on the Mars.

Ianneo’s latest surface find is located at 33°12’29.82”N and 12°55’51.21”W.

But a higher-resolution image erases the illusion.

“As you can see, we’re actually looking at some sort of collapse pit, not a mound like it appears in the Google Mars image,” Jonathan Hill, a researcher at the Arizona State University Mars Space Flight Facility, was quoted as saying by Life’s Little Mysteries.

In 1976 the discovery of a Face on Mars, a hill photographed by NASA’s Viking 1 probe, stirred heated controversy. In one low-resolution image, it resembled a human face.

Space hobbyists speculated that the structure had been built by ancient Martians. A higher-resolution image taken of the face last year by NASA’s HiRISE camera revealed a rugged hill.
(Herald Online)