Face
it...there’s nothing there of alien doing. The infamous "Face on
Mars" got another once-over by the High Resolution Imaging
Science Experiment (HiRISE)
camera onboard the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on April 5, 2007.
HiRISE
captured this image of the eroded mesa made famous by its similarity to a
human face in a Viking Orbiter image with much lower spatial resolution and a
different lighting geometry.
If
you're still holding onto the fictional face, this popular landform in the Cydonia Region of Mars
can be studied to your heart's content by clicking
here.
-- Leonard David
Credit: NASA/JPL/University
of Arizona.
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