NASA finds Cookie Monster on surface of Mercury

Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Institution of WA

"The superposition of younger craters on older craters (in this case two smaller craters upon the rim of an older crater) can result in landforms that appear to resemble more familiar shapes to human eyes." Definitely Cookie Monster. More: NASA.

(thanks, Miles O'Brien)

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PhosPhorious

‘M’ is for Mercury. That’s good enough for me.
technobach

Face on Mars, anyone?
awjt

yup yupyupyupyupyup
- ookluh
  
  Moooo!
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001184797462 Robert Jonson
  
  Not Mars.
ocker3

Tastes kind of gritty…
miasm

om nom nom
http://www.facebook.com/elder.newman.1 Matt Newman

PBS funding got cut, so the muppets have self-deported to less conservative planets.
Faring

Looks more like a yip-yip to me. A a human face in profile on the bottom of the crater.