An impact crater punched through Mars, leaving behind what looks like the remains of an evil character in a cartoon movie: a dark splat.

As futuristic as this all is, NASA's history office pointed out today that Disney a 1957 cartoon imagined something pretty similar. Skip to 7:09 to see the more-than-half-century-old rover come to ...

An impact crater punched through Mars, leaving behind what looks like the remains of an evil character in a cartoon movie: a dark splat.