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Face on Mars Gets a Make-Over
Alien54 writes "ESA's Mars Express has obtained images of the Cydonia region, site of the famous 'Face on Mars.' using the High Resolution Stereo Camera. 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, with a ground resolution of approximately 13.7 metres per pixel."
Quick, someone tell Zak McKracken!
...talking to the Martians about the cost of acquiring the rights to release that material.
If that's meant to look like a face, it's a hella ugly one.
We look at other planets. They look back. :)
I still say it looks like Al Gore.
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> (that's a rough translation from European).
:o)
Thats a very broad brush
Go on, say something in European.
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This sort of information could be a death blow to conspiracy theories and the end of wild speculation as to the face's true origins and thus keep movies like John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Red Planet and Mission to Mars from being made!
Oh wait, that's a good thing.
Errrm, nevermind.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Yawn. Seen it all before. There are some conspiracy nutters who think theres something like that here on earth too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore.
The world needs to know!
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Something else in European: "Health care for all. True multi-party democracies"
When looked at from a particular angle, with particular lighting, then yes, it can look like a human face. But pictures shown from other angles or with different lighting don't look anything like a human face.
Heck, if you get the lighting right and go from just-so an angle, even Keith Richards seems to have a human face.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
What's wrong with you people?
Are we even looking at the same picture?
Look, on the near side is the chin, up from there is the nose, up from there are the other two noses and to the right of these is the telepathy patch.
You people are just too cynical for your own good.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
> Something else in European: "Health care for all. True multi-party democracies"
"Abortions for some-- miniature American flags for others!"
Something in European?
*ahem*
"Stupid Americans!"
There you go.
This is all fine and good, but what I really want to see is those hi-res photos of the Great Ass of Mars...
>Go on, say something in European.
"Le Americans, they steenk!"
"By yiminy, ve surrender!"
How's that? I know I have a bit of an accent, but I think I can be understood.
Shows what you know. We WERE on Mars 15 years ago. In fact, we are there now. Who do you think wipes off the solar panels on the rovers after a dust storm?
Mir tut es leid, Menschen daß Einfältigfehlersuchenbaumfolgendenaffen sind.
, receiving data from the Mars rovers and transmitting it back to Earth (yes: they use the same communication protocol!).
/snark
No they don't.
The english units sent by the mars rovers are encapsulated in metric units, and converted back on earth.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Yes but is there hope for Micheal Jackson to ever have a human face?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
"Haße" soll nicht "hasse" werden!
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That is all.
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