It's a Mars bear! Image resembling Paddington is seen on the surface of the Red Planet 

As any schoolchild knows, Paddington comes from Peru. Or does he?

This quirky picture from Mars seems to have captured the marmalade sandwich devotee smiling back at us from the fractured surface of the Red Planet.

The image was taken by a Nasa orbiter from 155 miles above Mars.

The spacecraft used its HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera; the most powerful ever sent to another planet.

This quirky picture from Mars seems to have captured the marmalade sandwich devotee smiling back at us from the fractured surface of the Red Planet

As any schoolchild knows, Paddington comes from Peru. Or does he?

The space agency explained: ‘A Bear on Mars? This feature looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really?

‘There’s a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular fracture pattern (the head).

‘The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater.

‘Maybe the nose is a volcanic or mud vent and the deposit could be lava or mud flows?

‘Maybe just grin and bear it,’ they add.