![]() ![]() Had we seen both sides of the face, we may not have thought it was a face. ![]() Note that for new Sampling and Caching interior workspace, the belly pan in that front end of the rover (about first 1 1/2 feet from front end. Structure Bottom and sides are the frame of the chassis top is the rover equipment deck (its 'back') bottom is the belly pan. 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. Height 7 feet (2.2 meters) Weight / Mass 2,260 pounds / 1,025 kilograms. 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. 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. 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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