It looks like a blown-up image of someone, a woman perhaps, climbing down a rocky hill.
And going further back, it most definitely looks like someone, almost certainly a woman, climbing down a rock hill, or sitting and resting on her way down.
But here's the problem. This is a photo from the surface of Mars.
The images come from a Mars rover that has been tooling around the surface of the planet for four years. The rover's original mission was to have only lasted a few months, but every time it bogs down, or its solar panels get coated with dust, the rover finds a way to keep on exploring.
So what is that a photo of? A rock formation? Foreground or background objects pulled together by the camera lense?
As an occasional Mars addict, I can't say I've seen photos of any other rock formation that even come close to mimicking the human form.
It's certainly the most jaw-dropping image we've seen from Mars in a few years. And it gets the mind wondering : so what exactly would it take for the majority of humans to accept that there is life on Mars? Would the alien need to look more human, or less? Would it need to perform great feats beyond the capacity of humans, or would it have to deliver a competent and convincing interview on Oprah?
The more I look at the photos, the more I can see how the shadow of the not so strange rock formation give the illusion of a human form. And it's the 'shape' of what initially appears to be an extended arm that really sets off the illusion. A longer, closer look reveals that the arm shape is actually made up of rock colours and shapes from the distant background.
Of course I never believed for a second that those images really showed a human form, or a statue crafted by Martians to honour their Earth-based relatives.
Honest!
Or maybe it is simply one of these :
