Face on Mars Gets a Make-Over

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Face on Mars Gets a Make-Over

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 21, 2006 @11:13PM from the pretty-gods-of-war dept.

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."

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A face huh? by celardore · 2006-09-21 23:31 · Score: 5, Funny

If that's meant to look like a face, it's a hella ugly one.
You think this will quiet the conspiracy nuts? by p51d007 · 2006-09-21 23:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

I doubt it......the Roswell types will say that the image was doctored to distort the truth bla bla bla. It is a formation of ROCKS....period. Same as the "old man on the mountain" in Georgia. Heck, as a kid, you ever see "things" in clouds?
Re:Primary Goal of the Mission by mustafap · 2006-09-21 23:37 · Score: 5, Funny

> (that's a rough translation from European).

Thats a very broad brush :o)

Go on, say something in European.

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Other cool facts about the mission by YA_Python_dev · 2006-09-21 23:47 · Score: 5, Interesting
Mars Express contains 7 different scientific instruments and, amongs other things, it has already:
- discovered aurorae on Mars;
- transmitted back gigabytes of beautiful images with a resolution of up to 2 meters/pixel;
- discovered a huge subsurface water ice lake, with a thickness of 1.8 km and an extension of hundreds of kms;
- collaborated with NASA, receiving data from the Mars rovers and transmitting it back to Earth (yes: they use the same communication protocol!).
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That's no face... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-21 23:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Look closely at this image of cydonia. Now look closely at the torso on this image, that's proof positive that intelligent aliens with hyperdrive technology have travelled through this galaxy. For the doubters, here's a larger image. I just can't believe that world governments have managed to keep the truth covered up for so long!
The world needs to know!
There are many faces on Earth too by mrcgran · 2006-09-22 00:31 · Score: 5, Interesting

For instance, see this one in Peru:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-16.341133,-71.9652 69&spn=0.155239,0.240704&t=k&hl=en