By Dean Murray

A mysterious “helmet” has been spotted on Mars .

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover snapped an unusually shaped object on the Red Planet this month.

Space fans voted the image as NASA’s Image of the Week and debated online about what it could be.

The photo, selected by public vote, was taken on August 5 by the rover’s Left Mastcam-Z camera — one of a pair located high on the rover’s mast.

One online suggestion was that it resembles a medieval-looking helmet, while another referenced Harry Potter with the comment: “The Planet of the Sorting Hats has been found!”

Other guesses included it looking like a “landed weather balloon” or “a relic from an ancient sea that was once on Mars “.

Meanwhile, Facebook user Sid Niknezhad playfully suggested it was “Martian buffalo’s

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