Latest image from Curiosity near the Gale Crater and appears to show a giant mouse scurrying across the ridge of the 96-mile (154 km) rock structure. It was spotted by amateur astronomer Joe White, 45, who noticed a chunk of rock in NASA footage that looks bizarrely like a small rodent on the surface of the planet.
"It is what looks like a very large rodent in Gale Crater sitting on a ridge, plain as day", White said.
'It may be an optical illusion but it has big ears, nose and eyes visible.
'It resembles a very large mouse or gerbil, and would be about two or three feet long.'
The 'mouse' image was taken using the 6ft-high (1.8 metre) right-hand side mast cam on the Curiosity rover on 27 October.
Link NASA image : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00509/mcam/0509MR0020050020303165E01_DXXX.jpg
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