Figure on Mars Just a Rock

Much has been made this week of a NASA photo that some say reveals a humanoid figure on the surface of Mars. I think it looks something like a cross between Bigfoot and a Tusken Raider. NASA has officially responded to this hullabaloo.
"It's a two-inch piece of rock eroded by the wind," explained NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown. "No one on the Mars Rover team is puzzled or surprised by the rock," he said. "I can guarantee you that if [the alien theory] had any validity, we would would have a major press conference."
Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy website concurs. "The rock on Mars is actually just a few inches high and a few yards from the camera. A few million years of Martian winds sculpted it into an odd shape, which happens to look like, well, a Bigfoot! It's just our natural tendency to see familiar shapes in random objects."

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