Face on Mars Movie

Posted by Greg at 23:48, 24 Oct 2006

The European Space Agency website has a 3d movie/animation of the so-called 'Face on Mars' which gives an excellent feel for the actual layout of the feature, imaged from the new camera on board Mars Express:

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) science team have produced a dramatic 3D animation that beautifully simulates a flight over the Cydonia 'Face on Mars', one of the most famous surface features on the planet.

The movie sequence was produced through a combination of digital data from the HRSC and the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on board NASA's Mars Global Surveyor...the 3D animation starts looking towards the East, and finishes with a still image looking South.

Now, how about those 'pyramids'?

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Oh, a Martian face.
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Posted by Bill on 25 Oct 2006 at about 02:36.

In defense of Richard Hoagland, maybe Martians were just butt-ugly creatures and that is an accurate representation of a Martian face.

Bill

or maybe
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Posted by earthling on 25 Oct 2006 at about 02:39.

or maybe they were just real bad artists, could not model a face to save their life

which is why they are all dead now