It would have been so exciting if it had been a real doorway. Still, who said Martians had to be the same height as us?īut then geologists point out several straight-line fractures can be seen in this site, and the ‘doorway’ is where they happen to intersect. The passage seems to go in only a short way before the steeply descending roof meets the floor.Īnd then those killjoys at NASA tell us its only about 45 cm high. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.Īt first sight, the image from Curiosity is totally convincing. Unmasking the Face on Mars NASA's official article regarding Cydonia.This image was taken by Mastcam onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover on Sol 3466 (at 07:58:16 UTC). Observations of the "Face on Mars" - MSSS's discussion of the Cydonia photographs Malin's Space Science Systems page on Cydonia - MSSS is the NASA contractor responsible for building and processing the images received from the Mars Global Surveyor probe.
The sources for all of the above pictures are: (Picture taken from Touchstone's "Mission to Mars" movie) It isn't exactly like the real thing but who knows. And the new images have arisen claims that the right side of the 'Face', which until then hadn't been photographed with the same quality represents a 'Lion', with the structure having two sides, Human and Lion, a design found in some cultures on our planet.Īnd finally here's a picture of the Cydonia as it appears on UFO Defense. That should have ended the question, but it was later discovered that NASA had edited that photograph and had kept from publication an overhead image (unlike the previous one, which had been taken at a 45º angle), much more alike the previous Viking photos.Īlthough the new picture wasn't the proverbial 'smoking gun', NASA's behaviour concerning it has kept the suspicions of a coverup alive. The new picture effectively dispelled any idea of it representing a human face, looking instead more as drawings on a cat's litter box, and the media reproduced NASA's interpretation of it. And so, on 1998, NASA released a new picture of the 'Face', which hoped would settle the controversy. To end the discussion, on 1995 NASA announced that its new probe, Mars Surveyor, would conduct a reshooting of Cydonia. The discussion was also picked by the UFO community with claims that a major governmental conspiracy (what else) was taking place to keep secret the existence of artificial formations on Mars. In support of their claims, arguments were presented that, besides their appearance, there was a geometrical relationship between the several formations and that Cydonia Mensae was once the shore of an ancient ocean on Mars (the Acidalia Planitia).
NASA kept its earlier position that the 'Face' and the other features were nothing more than the result of erosion on natural formations, while a few scientists argued otherwise. The rerelease of the pictures sent off a debate regarding their possible artificiality. The first picture comes from Viking, the second is a close-up of the Face and the third is a 3D visualization of the area. From then other scientists start analyzing the features of the area.
When one of the photos was released it carried the mention that it resembled a human face but NASA stated that the 'human' appearance was due to a trick of light and shadow (and also for the propensity of people to recognize 'common' patterns into nature, such as seeing figures on clouds).įor years the 'Face', along with the rest of the pictures was forgotten until 1979 when two scientists, Molenar and Di Pietro, went over the Viking photographs and found more images of the area. On July 1976, the Viking 1 Orbiter was conducting a photographic survey of the surface of Mars, when it took several photos of the Cydonia Mensae area (roughly 40.9°N, 9.45°W).
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