The side we did not see was all broken up. If photographs of the martian surface, both from orbit and from the ground, one common feature is the presence of large dunes. Had we seen both sides of the face, we may not have thought it was a face. Sand dunes are scattered across Mars and one of the larger populations exists in the Southern hemisphere, just west of the Hellas impact basin. In the original Viking image, we did not see the part of the face that was all broken up-we just saw the best side of the face. The human brain has specialized mechanisms for face recognition, and can easily interpret what it sees as a face. Pareidolia is the tendency of a human observer to interpret a configuration of objects as a human face.

Jericho (Jason Statham) discovers the commanders head on a stick and the self-mutilated o. However, this notion is not accepted by any Mars scientist, and higher resolution photos of the face taken by the HiRISE cameras of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have shown that it is just an ordinary land-form. John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars - The Horrors Behind the Hill: Sgt. One might guess that with better images, the face would look more like a face, but it just looks like a broken up mesa.ĭue to the fact that the first few pictures of the face showed a face like structure due to shadows, fringe theories have arisen that the face (and surrounding mesas) were built by an alien civilization, and that NASA was covering up the evidence. This article has been updated with many pictures that were taken with more advanced cameras then the original image that showed the face. The Face on Mars is an eroded mesa-like landform in the Cydonia region.

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