From a moon that looks like the Death Star to a happy face on Mars: Hilarious photos show the funnier side of space travel
By Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
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- A selection of strange and amusing images have been taken from space
- These include a giant tick on Venus and a happy face on Mars
- Nasa claims all these sightings are just optical illusions
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Is there life on Mars? Maybe not, but there is a pyramid, a floating spoon and a large human brain.
These are some of the space oddities captured by Nasa in their search for life on other planets.
However, all these sightings are just optical illusions caused by reasons including wind-shaped rocks, impact craters and remnants of volcanic activity.
Other examples see a giant tick on Venus, in fact a volcano and a Mars crater resembling a happy face.
For sci-fi fans, there is even a rock-shape that resembles Han Solo in carbonite was spotted on Mercury by Nasa's Messenger probe.
These amusing space pictures prove that space exploration doesn't always have to be serious.
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