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Life on Mars? Man claims to have found mouse on red planet

Mouse or oddly shaped rock? .
Mouse or oddly shaped rock? . NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

While we may not have found any “little green men” on Mars, one man thinks he’s found a mouse.

Joe White, who lives in the United Kingdom and runs a YouTube channel called ArtAlienTV, claims to have found evidence of a mouse scurrying around Mars. He found the image while sifting through the raw images NASA posts from Curiosity.

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This isn’t the first time he’s made claims of finding evidence of life on Mars.

In one video, White claims to have also found a chimp skull.

He’s also found a meat cleaver, a humanoid skull, and buildings, among other things.

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The likely answer, of course, is that all of these things are rock formations that seemingly look like things with which we can associate.

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The human mind tends to find things that it can relate to or categorize. Finding a pattern or image in something random is called “pareidolia.” Just think of finding images in clouds: it’s a way for our brains trying to make sense of the world around us.

But you be the judge: are we really looking at life on Mars or just a really interesting rock?

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