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."

Comments

interesting

[joe 155]

This is the first time I've heard anything about this in ages. It looks so much like a humanoid face, more so than I tought it did the last time I saw these pictures. It would be nice if this proved that there were aliens on mars, but this proves the opposite, this is because if there were aliens which could sculpt something to look like that at that size then they would that be the only thing that they would have left and/or why hide when we take photos? (I know of the big stone ass of mars, but that's all the way on the other side ; )

Other than that I wish that they would start to use missions about/to mars to prepare for when we first go, and hopefully for eventual terra-forming.

Re:Link to the old, low-res version

[thesandtiger]

No need for that, here's an ultra-low-rez image embedded directly into this post:

8^)

Re:Other cool facts about the mission

[grammar fascist]

collaborated with NASA, receiving data from the Mars rovers and transmitting it back to Earth (yes: they use the same communication protocol!).

The amazing thing is that the European orbiter speaks the protocol using metric bits while our rovers use imperial bits! Once they discovered the error, NASA boffins were able to retrofit the rover code remotely using Java.

I don't know why we still stick to the imperial system - our bits are 2.54 times longer, which reduces bandwidth considerably.