Is there life on Mars? Maybe, and it could have dropped its teddy

This handout image from NASA taken by the HIRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and released on January 25, 2023 by the University of Arizona shows a formation on Mars that resembles a bear. — Handout/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/AFP

LOS ANGELES: Yogi, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh, move over. There’s a new bear in town. Or on Mars, anyway.

The beaming face of a cute-looking teddy bear appears to have been carved into the surface of our nearest planetary neighbour, waiting for a passing satellite to discover it.