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New Pictures of the "Face on Mars"

April 6, 1998 		Animation
Cydonia Formations
Original "Face on Mars" Photograph
(NASA/JPL/Caltech)
More than twenty years ago, NASA released photos of the Cydonia Region of Mars. One of the ground formations looked like a rectangular face, and caused a stir of controversy, the flames of which were fanned by people such as Art Bell and Richard Hoagland (who also claims to have found ancient structures on the moon, and eroding machinery at the Mars Pathfinder landing site).

On April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor re-photographed the Cydonia Region: view the result here. Decide for yourself, does it look like a face?

As I was viewing the picture, a passing co-worker remarked, "What is that, a footprint?"

A few words are sometimes worth a thousand pictures.

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