An Italian space enthusiast named Matteo Lanneo claimed to have found a structure on the face of Mars that looks like Mahatma Gandhi.

He said that he found the structure while going through the pictures of the planet in the Google Mars, a new online map pieced together from satellite images of the Red Planet.

The head appears to have a moustache and shaven, and has prominent eyebrows, the Daily Mail reported. Lanneo said the structure is located at Latitude 33°12'29.82N, Longitude 12°55'51.21W.

The latest Gandhi structure reminds us of the Face on Mars, a hill photographed by NASA's Viking 1 Orbiter.

Space enthusiasts said that the structure was built by aliens. But later on, an image taken with NASA's HiRISE camera in 2010 clarified that the face was just a large, rocky hill.

Humans have been finding interesting objects on the Martian surface for centuries. The phenomenon of seeing faces is called pareidolia - where a stimulus is perceived as having significance, be it a symbol seen in a cloud or a face on a piece of toast, an IANS report said.

According to scientists, the phenomenon occurs because humans tend to recognize familiar objects as a survival technique.

Check out some interesting images of Mars' surface showing structures that look like man-made.

A Martian surface feature that one man says looks like the profile of Mahatma Gandhi
A Martian surface feature that one man says looks like the profile of Mahatma Gandhi. Matteo Ianneo/ESA/Google Maps/
A Martian surface feature that one man says looks like the profile of Mahatma Gandhi
Photo taken of the Gandhi face geologic feature by the Mars Express Orbiter. ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
NASA039S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Spirit spent the closing months of 2007
NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Spirit spent the closing months of 2007. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Unive
NASA039s Viking 1 Orbiter spacecraft photographed this region in the northern latitudes of Mars on July 25, 1976
NASA's Viking 1 Orbiter spacecraft photographed this region in the northern latitudes of Mars on July 25, 1976 while searching for a landing site for the Viking 2 Lander. NASA
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