Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!
Aliens111 Navigation
Home
Back
Forward
Sign Guestbook
View Guestbook
Contact US
Direct Connect
Suggest this Site
Search Aliens111
Join Mailing List
Refresh Page
Aliens111 Products
UFO Detectors
Video and Audio
UFO Video Page
UFO Audio Page
Tennessee Video
UFO News Feed
Filer Files
Submission Section
Submit Encounter
Submit URL
Submit Banner
Win our Award!
Award Submit
Aliens111 Webring
Join our Webring
Main Pages
Rendlesham Forest
Washington 1952
Tunguska 1908
UFO Pictures
UFO Quotes
Banner Page
Disclosure Project
Sightings Reports
Crop Circles
Bob Lazar Interview
UFO Theories
Mississippi Abductions
Abductee Quiz
Roswell Crash
Face on Mars
Krill Report
Dr. J Allen Hynek
Spot a Hoax
UFO History
The Greys
Recovered Bodies
UFO Link Page
About the Webmaster
Our Other Sites
UFO Gazette.com
UFO Detectors.com


   Search Aliens111


Join our Mailing List

Receive our monthly news letter and update notifications.
Name:
Email:


JoinUnsubscribe

   Search the Web








FACE ON MARS



Mars Face

The "Face" on Mars is a rock formation on the surface of Mars resembling an enormous humanoid face staring straight up into space. It is about 2.5 km long x 2.0 km wide x 0.4 km tall and is located on a flat plain known as Cydonia Mensae in Mars' northern hemisphere (41 deg. N latitude 9.5 deg. longitude). The Face and other objects described on this page were imaged by one of the Viking Orbiters in the summer of 1976.

The Face was dismissed by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a trick of light and shadow and forgotten. The original image (Viking orbiter image 1) was rediscovered by Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, two engineers at the Goddard Spaceflight Center, several years later. They also found a second image (image 2) containing the Face under slightly different illumination with the sun about 20 deg. higher in the sky.

The picture on the left (below) is from frame 35A72. It has been digitally restored with minimal contrast alteration. The picture on the right is from frame 70A13. This image more clearly shows the right shadowed side of the face. Of particular interest are crossed lines in the forehead area and fine structure in the mouth that look like teeth. Since they are in both images and are not aligned with the scan lines it is likely that they correspond to real features on the Face that are near or slightly below the resolution limit of the sensor.

  


The Face is not an isolated formation. As shown in the above picture from 35A72, about 20 kilometers west-southwest of the Face are several other unusual objects (dubbed the "City" by author Richard Hoagland). Where the Face is a rounded formation (geologists would call it a mesa or knob) the City contains an assortment of pyramidal objects with sharp angular sides.

City and Face


Perhaps the most unusual object within the City is a pyramidal object (the "Fortress") that appears to have been stripped down almost to its base revealing an enclosed inner space. The perspective view (above right) was generated from the overhead view (above left) using a single image shape-from-shading algorithm. Fine scale detail in the restored imagery includes a regular pattern of indentations along the lower wall of the structure and linear features on the terrain to the right (below>.

  


About 20 kilometers south-southwest of the Face is a larger pyramidal structure first noticed by DiPietro and Molenaar. The D&M pyramid appears to have five sides. One of the sides is shadowed and two of the sides appear to be degraded. The south face appears to be oriented almost exactly due south.



CLICK picture below to view RAW NASA PHOTO!


The "Face" on Mars has now passed each test of artificiality yet proposed. These tests include a three dimensional structure, a lack of fractal patterns in the image, non-random distribution of the nearby small mounds, proximity of other anomalous landforms, an apparent bilateral symmetry, being located on the martian equator, having a culturally significant orientation, and serving an apparent culturally significant purpose. It would be an exaggeration to say that the case for artificiality is now compelling, and many thoughtful people will still find that conclusion less likely than all these "coincidences" put together. Yet the balance of the evidence, considered objectively, now weighs clearly in favor of artificiality over a natural origin of the Cydonian landforms.



Contact Us
Submit Sighting
    Aliens111 Stargate Copyright ©2003 is a subsidiary of the UFO Gazette® Website, All Rights Reserved.