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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Beaker the Muppet on Mars? A formation on the south pole region of the Red Planet captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks eerily familiar to The Muppets ...

A new NASA photo of Mars shows a spot on the plant’s surface that looks to some people like Beaker, the scientist Muppet. It’s an “overdue honor for Earth’s most-abused Muppet,” says Live Science.