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History
Theories
How to find the images
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Figure
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It
all started in July of 1976 when a Viking orbiter spacecraft
took the picture
shown in Figure 1 (the infamous
frame #35A72.) NASA released the photograph a few days later,
somewhat as a publicity stunt, dismissing
the face as a "trick of light and shadow" when shown
to journalists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,
California. Their explanation
for the face was that the geometry of the terrain combined with
a lighting effect from the sun being low in the sky created
shadows that made the 1.5-mile long hill resemble a face. The
image was forgotten about for a few years until 1979, when two
computer engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Vincent
DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar,
became
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intrigued
by it and developed some image enhancing software to improve
the quality of the photo. Discovering another curious 5-sided
pyramid-shaped object nearby (now known as the "D&M
Pyramid" in their honor), they presented their findings
to a disinterested scientific establishment.
Former
NASA consultant and science advisor CBS during the Apollo missions,
Richard Hoagland
picked up on the controversy and further developed the theory
of Martian Monuments, having discovered the so-called "City"
and "Fortress" (see Mars
Global Surveyor (MGS) image in Figure
2 below).
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1987, Dr. Mark J. Carlotto, furthered the research by discovering
possible "teeth" in the face and an overall symmetry
of the face and its consistent appearance under a variety of lighting
conditions (see his website "New Frontiers in Science,"
for a paper
on the subject.) He called for NASA to utilize the 1992 spacecraft
Mars
Observor to re-image the area. Unfortunately, the mission
was a bust and failed before getting into Mars orbit. |
Figure
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Figure
3 (click to enlarge)
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In
1998, NASA's Mars
Global Surveyor began imaging Mars and made some photos
of the region that showed the face 20 years later and under
different lighting conditions. The image in Figure
3, for example, was taken under cloudless conditions
on 8 April 2001 and has a resolution of 1.56 meters per pixel.
Click
here
for more information on the MGS image of the face. More MGS
images can be found here.
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Hoagland
has dismissed some of the released images as "crap"
and continues to develop an increasingly complete and complicated
story of city ruins on his website Enterprise
Mission. The alternative theorists have linked Cydonia to
everything from ancient Egypt to crop circles in England and believe
that the monuments were
built by the same Sirius-originated extraterrestrials that
built the Egyptian pyramids. And, of course, it is all being covered
up by the CIA!  |
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| THEORIES... |
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ORTHODOX:
NASA believes that all of these structures are natural and are
simply geographical structures that are enhanced due to lighting
effects.
ALTERNATIVE:
1.
"Dr. Mark Carlotto believes the City and Face to be be
the ancient and highly-eroded remains of artificial structures
which once existed on the Red Planet." This is outlined
in his book "The Cydonia Controversy."
2.
In his book, "Monuments of Mars," Richard Hoagland
links the "pyramids" of Mars and those of Egypt. He
muses that there may be an ultimate purpose behind the Mars
Face, namely that it was put there eons ago by ancient alien
astronauts to inform us of our roots; that, a la 2001, ancient
Earth humanoids were taken to Mars, where a race of alien-human
hybrids was created and returned to earth, ultimately to evolve
into Pam Anderson and Michael Jackson.
JIMBO's
VIEW:
A lot of the ideas about linking Cydonia to Egypt are a case
of trying too hard to fit the data and find similarities. For
example, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock's theory
that the Sphinx in Giza and the Cydonia face are related doesn't
make a lot of sense to me. First of all, the Sphinx is 240'
long by 46' wide and faces east. The Face is 8400' long by 6300'
wide and faces up. And they don't really look any more like
each other than a random cloud looks like a horsie. Graham Lynn
Picknett and Clive Prince expressed this much better than I
could in their book "The
Stargate Conspiracy." However, I do think that the
odds that a natural structure on Mars would be that symmetrical
AND look like a face from above AND be near other symmetrical
natural structures is too small for the Orthodox theory to be
credible. See my mathmatical
proof that The Face can't be natural.
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| HOW
TO FIND the images from the original MGS charts... |
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1.
Go to the Malin Space Science Systems web site. Click on the images
link (or go directly
here.)
2. Click on the "E01 through E06, February 2001 - July 2001"
link (or go directly
here.)
3. You'll see a map like the one shown below in Figure
4. Click on segment MC-04: Mare Acidalium (MC=Mars Chart).
See red arrow in Figure 4 for location
of segment. |
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Figure
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| 4.
You'll see a detailed map like the one shown below in Figure
5. In the lower right, there is a cluster of narrow angle
image links in Cydonia around 40.86°N, 9.91°W. See red
arrow in Figure 5 for location of
link. They overlap so it is hard to select on the right one, so
just go to narrow-angle
image E03-00824. |
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Figure
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| 5.
Click on the left image or one of the enhanced photo links. |
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| MORE
INFO ... |
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"Unmasking
the Face on Mars," NASA
"Symmetry
and Geometry of the Face on Mars Revealed," Dr. Mark
J. Carlotto
NSSDC
Photo Gallery: Mars , NASA
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