KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In today's "ASK CNN," a question about the moon's geography and the view from earth.</s>MARTHA NICE: Hello, my name is Martha Nice, and I'm from Paoli, Indiana. And my question is why does it look like there's a man in the moon.</s>MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT: The moon is made up of some very prominent and interesting features. And probably the most prominent of them are these gray areas known as the marias. And if you look at them in a certain angle at certain times, you can sort of get the impression that there is a face depicted in there. Of course, it's not unlike, I guess, looking at clouds and deciding you see some other object that's not there. That's in essence what you're seeing when you look at the moon. The moon's features, interestingly enough, are created by years and years of commentary and asteroid impacts. The reason they're so obvious on the moon is there's no atmosphere, there's no foliage, and there's no tectonic plates or volcanoes that would cover them up. So when you look at the moon, you see a history of impacts. And those craters and the features that those craters create may give one the impression that there is a face on that planet, but of course, that is all a fairly subjective thing.
Ask CNN: Why Does It Look Like There Is a Man in the Moon?