The Face on Mars
The Face on Mars
No matter what you believe about whether or not it is a structure,I hope this Hi-res orbiter will take some clear and totally unambigous photos to clear up once and for all exactly what it is.
craters
Hi,
Just looking at the hi-res mars photo.
presumably all those craters are from meteoroids.
why are there so many?
also i would guess mars would be subject to a similar bombardment as Earth - ie minimal.
And why does the martian weather not erase the craters as happens on earth? (at least for the smaller ones)
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Just looking at the hi-res mars photo.
presumably all those craters are from meteoroids.
why are there so many?
also i would guess mars would be subject to a similar bombardment as Earth - ie minimal.
And why does the martian weather not erase the craters as happens on earth? (at least for the smaller ones)
Thanks
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Like this was not close enough.
I've never quite understood why people get so bent out of shape over that thing. I mean... given an entire surface of a planet, odds are something is going to end up looking vaguely like a human face.
It doesn't help that the human brain is pretty much hardwired to pick out human faces out of completely random noise...![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
It doesn't help that the human brain is pretty much hardwired to pick out human faces out of completely random noise...
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I thought the face was old hut.
I did not realize that some people question the face.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010528.html
Oh well so be it.
The face was put there by aliens.
I thought the face was old hut.
I did not realize that some people question the face.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010528.html
Oh well so be it.
The face was put there by aliens.
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Re: craters
Consider, Earth has an active, protective atmosphere that shields us from such things as Leonid and other meteor showers. Mars is not so lucky. It will be regularly slammed by the small pebble size space drbris that burns up in our atmosphere.reilly wrote:Hi,
Just looking at the hi-res mars photo.
presumably all those craters are from meteoroids.
why are there so many?
also i would guess mars would be subject to a similar bombardment as Earth - ie minimal.
And why does the martian weather not erase the craters as happens on earth? (at least for the smaller ones)
Thanks
Aardvaark
Hhere is the image I think you mean
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/martia ... _proc.html
It doesn't look much like a face here.
Hhere is the image I think you mean
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/martia ... _proc.html
It doesn't look much like a face here.
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All,
We should not be surprised at face shaped formations on Mars - there has been one discovered already at "Roosevelt" by Mars Rover Opportunity: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... 0217a.html
And there are many on Earth. Some are fakes - see the 'Marree Man' at 29deg 31' 50.36"S 137 deg22' 02.32"E.
Others may be natural but are so detailed that fakery must be suspected - the Face on Canada at 50deg 00' 37.42"N 110deg 06' 50.61"W. I'm still hoping that some enterprising Canadian will fly over the latter and report if it is A/ really there, and not a hack into Google Earth, or B/ just an artefact of low res imaging.
Any why should a 'face on canada' look so like a Mayan?
John
We should not be surprised at face shaped formations on Mars - there has been one discovered already at "Roosevelt" by Mars Rover Opportunity: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... 0217a.html
And there are many on Earth. Some are fakes - see the 'Marree Man' at 29deg 31' 50.36"S 137 deg22' 02.32"E.
Others may be natural but are so detailed that fakery must be suspected - the Face on Canada at 50deg 00' 37.42"N 110deg 06' 50.61"W. I'm still hoping that some enterprising Canadian will fly over the latter and report if it is A/ really there, and not a hack into Google Earth, or B/ just an artefact of low res imaging.
Any why should a 'face on canada' look so like a Mayan?
John
Well it is an interesting outcropping of property isn’t it? I wonder who will claim it 1st.
Saying that it looks like a face is purely imaginative however, it is most peculiar.
I wonder what the great pyramids of Egypt will look like after all life is extinct, our planet loses its atmosphere / water and dust and grain particles scatter about everywhere causing an extreme desert-like condition over the entire planet. Could the then half covered mostly eroded pyramids resemble a natural outcropping of rock as well?
Just because it may not be a face does not mean it’s any less significant.
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Saying that it looks like a face is purely imaginative however, it is most peculiar.
I wonder what the great pyramids of Egypt will look like after all life is extinct, our planet loses its atmosphere / water and dust and grain particles scatter about everywhere causing an extreme desert-like condition over the entire planet. Could the then half covered mostly eroded pyramids resemble a natural outcropping of rock as well?
Just because it may not be a face does not mean it’s any less significant.
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