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Cydonia - the face on Mars New Mars Express high resolution pictures

#1 User is offline   asylum_souljah 

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Posted 21 September 2006 - 05:02 PM

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ESA's Mars Express has obtained images of the Cydonia region, site of the famous 'Face on Mars.' The High Resolution Stereo Camera photos include some of the most spectacular views of the Red Planet ever.

After multiple attempts to image the Cydonia region from April 2004 until July 2006 were frustrated by altitude and atmospheric dust and haze, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express finally obtained, on 22 July, a series of images that show the famous 'face' on Mars in unprecedented detail.

The data were gathered during orbit 3253 over the Cydonia region, with a ground resolution of approximately 13.7 metres per pixel. Cydonia lies at approximately 40.75° North and 350.54° East...


Full article and picture: http://www.esa.int/e...RE_index_0.html
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Posted 21 September 2006 - 11:51 PM

These photos are great but I doubt the debate about Cydonia will end with these photos.
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Posted 22 September 2006 - 11:31 AM

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Despite all this, the formal scientific interpretation has never changed: the face remains a figment of human imagination in a heavily eroded surface.

I would have to agree with this. No offense to anyone, but why is there such a big deal made about it? It's just a landscape that happens to form a pattern recognizable to us - well, not very recognizable to me though; I can't even make out a distinct face.
Granted, some of the 'structures' I've read about before have me puzzled.
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Posted 22 September 2006 - 02:40 PM

Humans have the natural brain chemistry to recognize faces in artwork and nature- ever seen a few nuts that screwed a table together and think, gee, those look like eyes.

That's the kind of thing you're getting. On the other side, why is there so much concern on debunking it? ... Ok, back to my math homework.

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