Here’s your daily dose of weird: Almost four decades ago a strange photograph was taken of Mars by the Viking 1 space probe, which appeared to show a massive humanoid-looking face carved into the Red Planet’s landscape, staring back at the orbiter’s lens. The so-called ‘Face on Mars‘ would go on to become a fixture in theories about extraterrestrial alien life, though later more high-resolution photographs of the region had NASA dashing thoughts of it being an artificial creation.
Interestingly though, the idea of a ‘Face on Mars’ was already present in popular culture, through a 1959 comic book illustrated by the great Jack Kirby – 17 years before the Viking photograph. And the weirdness doesn’t end there – see this fun article at the Secret Sun blog to go right down the rabbit hole…
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