creepy smiley face on mars ESA shared image of ExoMars orbiter

Mars Creepy Smiley Face: After Earth, the planet that scientists have wanted to explore the most is Mars. Many agencies, including the US space agency NASA, have sent their missions there, which are gathering new information about the red planet. In one such information, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a strange picture seen on Mars. This picture is of a scary smiley face. At first it seems as if someone has carved the figure, but this is one of the evidences found on Mars, which reveals the presence of life there in the past.
The European Space Agency has said that the ‘scary smiley face’-like image seen on Mars is actually a
Chloride salt deposits. This picture has been captured by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. ESA has written that Mars once had rivers, lakes and perhaps oceans. The chloride salt deposits found there can help in finding out that past.

This discovery is very important. The presence of chloride salt deposits on Mars indicates that there was water there at some point of time, perhaps billions of years ago. It also indicates the existence of life in this area. It also shows that the climate of this area must have been habitable billions of years ago. Scientists believe that such micro-organisms may exist at this place, which are safe in the harsh climate of Mars.

ESA shared the photo on its Instagram handle, which has received more than 9 thousand likes. Users have also made many interesting comments on the picture. One wrote, it was shot with S24 Ultra Pro Max.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission was launched in 2016. It was proposed for 7 years, but it has been 8 and a half years since the mission started and it is still working. It is a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos. Both together sent an orbiter and a lander to Mars. The orbiter is working properly, but the lander crashed.