 Robert Todd Carroll
click here to see the latest photo of the "face" (April 8, 2001)
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face on Mars
According to Gary Posner, the one most responsible for the view that the face on Mars is an alien construction is Richard C. Hoagland, author of The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever (1987).
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter sent back some more detailed pictures in July, 2002 that seems to slap the face into the ground with a group of other slapped faces. Much to the dismay of mystery mongers, NASA says that the Cydonia region is a "normal geologic feature with slopes and ridges carved by eons of wind and downslope motion due to gravity."* For the latest high resolution photos click here.
See also ancient astronauts, apophenia, Our Lady of Watsonville, pareidolia, Rorschach Ink Blot Test, Sitchin, subliminal, and Velikovsky. further reading
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The
face on Mars is the image of some photographs of the Cydonia region of
Mars taken in 1976 by the Viking Orbiter. The image is most likely of a
natural formation but some people see a
face or a building and are convinced that it was constructed by intelligent
beings.
NASA claims that the photos are just a play of light and shadow. Some took this explanation as a sure sign of a cover-up.
Some engineers and computer specialists digitally enhanced the NASA images. This soon gave
birth to the claim that the face was a sculpture of a human being located next to a city
whose temples and fortifications could also be seen. Some began to wonder: were these
built by the same beings who built the 
Sagan's more down-to-earth explanation for the face on mars is that it is the
result of erosion and winds and other natural forces (Sagan, 52-55). Such a
view seems most reasonable under the circumstances.
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