Just for clarification (since OP didn't give any insight to the picture he/she posted), it's a picture of the "Mars Rat"[1]. It's just a funny looking rock.

[1] https://www.space.com/21455-mars-rat-curiosity-rover-drive.h...

Yup. Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidences.

I think that the parameter space of "all possible rock shapes" X all possible camera angles / perspectives is so large that you are abound to get rocks that look like all sorts of things. Plus humans like to/evolved to find faces/creatures in patterns (see clouds). So that's pretty weak evidence.

And what exactly am I looking at here?

What is the story with this image?

"UFO buffs zeroed in on a portion of a panoramic photo taken by NASA's Curiosity rover in September 2012. These viewers spotted an object that looked like a rat lying between two rocks. While it's a creative idea, the "Mars rat" is unlikely, scientists have said. The Red Planet has extremely cold temperatures, is baked in radiation and lacks a thick, protective atmosphere like Earth's, making it an extremely hostile environment for life." [1]

Doesn't seem legitimate.

1 - https://www.cbsnews.com/media/mars-myths-6-red-planet-hoaxes...

I can imagine simple, extremophile life of some kind existing on Mars, but complex vertebrates running around on its surface is just silly.