The Mars "woman" everybody seems to be talking about has now been debunked as simply being a result of "pareidolia", the technical term for instances where humans see more than what the eyes perceive.

Classic examples of pareidolia - the "man" or the "rabbit" in the Moon - took place as the human brain produced a pattern which is far from the actual random sight.

Since Mars has rock formations much like Earth's, it is described by Forbes as a likely place where pareidolia could occur. Every few months, people spot an animal, a face even an artifact hidden in the photos taken by the Curiosity rover. The current Mars "woman" sighting is the most recent.

The Mars "woman," which is a shadow appearing to be the shape of a long-haired woman atop a cliff in the Red Planet, has created quite a buzz on social media, according to Fox News.

The photo of the Mars woman has a website calling the image "proof" of life on Mars, reported The Telegraph. The website "UFO Sightings Daily " titled its post of the Mars woman as "Alien Woman on Mars Watching Rover From Hill" and described the shadow as the shape of "a woman partly cloaked."

"We also see two arms that are lighter in colour and what looks like a head with long hair," the site continued. "And it should concern every country in the world. There is life out there."

"The woman seems to have breasts... indicated by the shadow on its chest," said alien life hunter Scott C Waring in the post.

Mashable did an analysis of the Mars woman image and the site has been guarded.

"Perhaps it's a cloaked ghost Martian woman, perhaps it's a statue left over from a once great society, perhaps it's a piece of dirt," the website said.

Posted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a link to the image can be found here.

Forbes has been more blunt about its definition of the Mars woman sighting and said that the light and shadow's pattern in the photo may be human like but it is vague. According to Forbes, the "woman" in the photo definitely appeared only a few inches tall since her height would be based on the size of rocks surrounding "her."

Though Mars may have life, it can only be found with rovers and would likely be macroscopic and not in the form of tiny humans.