Click here for comparison photos.Īll conspiracy theories aside, the face on Mars had many scientists intrigued for a while, trying to determine what had created the illusion. The shadows that seem to be the facial features nearly disappear in high resolution imagery. More recent images from the Mars Global Surveyor and other spacecraft have shown that the face on Mars is nothing other than a hill. Unfortunately, it took many years to develop the technology to image the mesa more clearly, so these crackpots had plenty of time to spread their poisoned opinions. Some even went so far as to believe that the Martians formed the face to communicate with a less developed human race. Of course, UFO buffs(read fools here, please) jumped on the images as evidence that there was a past culture on the planet.
The mesa has a few higher areas where you would expect to see human features and the mind fills in the blanks. Common examples include seeing animals or faces in clouds or the Virgin Mary in a pancake. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where a vague and random image is perceived as significant. The meas seems appears to be a face because of an optical illusion called pareidolia. This is an area where the heavily bombarded southern hemisphere begins to transition into the smooth, relatively uncratered north. The face is located among a few craters in the area, specifically about half-way between Arandus Crater and Bamberg Crater. The Cydonia area of the northern hemisphere of Mars includes: Cydonia Mensae, which is an area of flat-topped mesa-like features, Cydonia Colles, which is an area of hills, and Cydonia Labyrinthus, a group of intersecting valleys. The original images were dismissed, but were reconsidered when a second set of images from a different angle showed the same face. It uses an average of the Navcam positions to synthesize the point of. These images are from an area known as the Cydonia Mensae. This mosaic is made of 20 images, each of 1,024 by 1,024 pixels, taken late at night on Aug. A few of those images contained what is now known as ”the face on Mars”. In June of 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 mission began sending back images from the Martian surface.
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