Viewed from the air, it resembles a westward-facing human head wearing a full Indigenous headdress. Image from Wikipedia user NationalParks.The Badlands Guardian is a geomorphological feature situated in the southeast corner of Alberta, Canada. You can find rocks like this scattered all over the world - this particular rock is from Mushroom Rock State Park near Salina, Kansas. These rocks used to be shaped more symmetrically, but years and years of erosion – the rock that forms the top of the mushroom is a harder rock than the one on the bottom. But he's a lot tinier than he appears to be in the picture – NASA issued a statement saying that the "man" was "a 2-inch sedimentary rock that has been eroded by the wind." Mushroom Rocks This one doesn't quite fit the category "human" looking pieces of nature, but they're pretty cool all the same. The Man on Mars Another one from Mars – the Mars rover Spirit took pictures of what appears to be a man sitting on a rock on Mars. The Viking Orbiter first took a picture of the "happy face crater" on March 12, 1999. The smiley is created by a mountain range and the eyes are two small craters within the big crater. Galle Galle is a crater on Mars, which isn't really a big deal, except it looks like a smiley face. If you'd like to read more about Hoagland's theories, check out Wikipedia. Hoagland, who is somewhat famous for his… "interesting"… theories, thinks it's evidence of an ancient Martian civilization. It's generally thought just to be an optical illusion due to the formation of the land, but at least a couple of people have different theories. At first experts thought it was just a trick of the light, but then a second picture corroborated the first. Cydonia Mensae This startling face on Mars was found on July 25, 1976, by a couple of computer engineers looking through NASA archives at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Even though he's not there now, you can still see him, sort of – viewfinders were erected at the base of the cliff that let viewers see how the Old Man of the Mountain used to look. People were so upset that they left flowers at the base of the mountain to mourn him. Daniel Webster had a particularly poetic description of the Man: "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men." Although the state tried desperately to save the Old Man – including using cables and spikes to try to keep him upright – he "died" sometime between midnight and 2 a.m.
However, Native American legends that date back as far as 1604 said that following the Merrimack River would lead to a mountain with a stone face. He was carved out by glaciers many moons ago, but the first confirmed discovery of his profile was in 1805. After 10,000 years in existence, the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed in 2003. The Old Man of the Mountain Sadly, if you haven't already seen the Old Man, you never will – at least not in person. You can read more about the Guardian here and check out a list of suggested names. The head is located in Cypress County, so the Cypress County Council held a contest to name the landmark. The earphones are a road and an oil well.
The head was likely created by erosion of the soft soil following a particularly intense rainfall. The natural shape of the land looks remarkably like a man wearing a native American headdress and earphones. The Badlands Guardian is located near Medicine Hat in Alberta, Canada. The Badlands Guardian We can thank Google Earth and "Supergranny" for the discovery of this guy. Here are a few natural occurrences of nature that look a lot like… well, things that don't naturally occur in nature. Me: "Cotton candy?" Bridget: "No, that looks like an upside-down rubber duck floating in a sea of crystal shards." Despite my obliviousness, even I can see the shapes in these objects. I said this to a friend a few weeks ago on a day with perfect blue skies and lots of fluffy clouds to scrutinize.
I've always been bad at that game where you look at clouds and see shapes in them.
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