PREVIEW

Is there life on Mars? Specifically, a penguin and an elephant!

Eagle-eyed space fans have noticed some strangely familiar shapes in the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.

The incredibly detailed view of the Red Planet has been examined for signs of life, and the uncanny outlines of two Earth-bound creatures have been spotted on the top-left horizon.

One online space-watcher asked NASA: “How do you explain the elephant and the penguin?”

The jaw-dropping panorama used a zoomable pair of cameras and was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images taken on Sol 3, the third Martian day of the mission (Feb. 21, 2021).