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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."
Mars Express contains 7 different scientific instruments and, amongs other things, it has already:
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To me it looks more like an island, and the sea around it has gone...
What strikes me about the pictures from the Mars Express is how weird they look - they look kind of artificial - like they've been hand-drawn/painted by a 1950's space artist. They don't look like a picture if you nkow what I'm trying to say. The colours are very "rich" and unreal looking - difficult to explain - it might be a result of the prcoessing they've gone through.
Yes, but Richard Hoagland wouldn't sell any books if he just said it was just a rock formation. No, it's a CONSPIRACY and will be as long as there are people stupid enough to believe him.
Yes I do realise that, thank you :)
0 8-230906-3253-6-3d2-Cydonia_H.jpg and you'll see what I'm talking about. What I think they've done is really enhance the contrast of the picture. The colouring still reminds me of old 1950's style drawings of craters and the like.
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But take a look at http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsexpress/3
I wasn't trying to imply the pictures are fake at all, by the way.
I'm sure many of you are aware that if you mirror one side of the face you end up with the face of the Sphinx and the other will look like a lion's face. I've always wondered about this, but for years we only had low quality image. Now there's decent quality images of the face of Mars and with some manipulation with Gimp I've mirrored both sides of the face. http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/8384/faceonmars 2gn2.png
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3146/faceonmars3p f6.png
Kudos to ESA.
For instance, see this one in Peru:
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http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-16.341133,-71.965
some people claim to have seen iesous(jesus, iesus, claims vary) on the very surface of earth http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=-16.33701 3,-71.959763&spn=0.075447,0.113811&t=k
The human mind got some imprinted patterns, christians will see what they want to see, reptile sentients will see the holy Lizard king.
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the official languages of the conferences and workshops they run is always English.
This is generally true in the sciences, and may be a result of the ESA's scientific mandate.
It makes it easier that every word is an English word: "Pukka sushi compadre" is an English sentence. That's one reason why English has so many more words than most language: we borrow words from other languages with wild abandon (and aren't very good about giving them back.)
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Even in more detail and from more angles, I find it still looksat least as much like a face as the Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire, the image of the Virgin Mary in a fogged thermopane window in Milton Hospital, Massachusetts.
It also looks at least as much like a face as human-constructed faces that have been ravaged by time, such as the Sphinx, or Michael Jackson.
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Anyone with a few minutes to waste (and I do mean waste) can browse Richard Hoagland's web site (enterprisemission.com) and see just how true this statement is.
Twenty years ago, before high-resolution photos of Mars were available, Hoagland got a lot of mileage out of the low-res Cydonia photos. I remember that he even wrote a couple of fairly serious speculative articles about Cydonia that were published in Analog magazine. After the high-res images became available, and it became obvious that the "face" was nothing of the sort, Hoagland went completely off the deep end, and now claims that the surface of Mars is literally covered with artifacts, i.e. "rocks" to the non-believers. Hoagland will show image after image of a random rock on the surface of Mars and proclaim that this rock is clearly artificial, that NASA is denying the obvious truth, etcetera, etcetera.
The beauty of being delusional is that you can find any pattern you want in random images or data, provided you decide to pick and choose what parts of the image/data to disregard. However, in Hoagland's case it's probably less a matter of being delusional than a case of wanting to maintain his revenue stream from the True Believers.
This hasn't stopped the Enterprise Mission people from claiming conspiracy and that it is indeed still a face. Their web page is hilarious. One of the most recent articles has scans from a 1950's era Jack Kirby comic that featured a giant face on Mars as "proof" we knew about the face years ago, and that someone must have "leaked" the story to Jack Kirby. Too much fun.