You start to drowse off in your chair, when suddenly the teletype. In the original image, taken by Viking 1, one of thousands of buttes, mesas, ridges, and knobs in the transition zone between the cratered uplands of western Arabia Terra and the low, northern plains of Mars looked somewhat like a human face. The coffee's cold and, outside, the rain drums steadily against the window. This high-resolution image from the Mars Orbiter Camera about the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft shows the famous 'Face on Mars' in detail, clearly showing it to be a natural geological formation. Imagine yourself in a NASA control room, late at night. Finishing: Gallery Wrap Stretched Canvas Print - 1.5' Stretcher Bars. The Eskimo looks as if it is leaning into a doorway and is dressed in white. New high resolution imagery has proven that this hill on Mars doesn't look quite so much like a carved face after all. BRANDENBURG'S BOOKS: SPRUCE UP YOUR LIVING SPACE OR OFFICE SPACE WITH A CONVERSATION STARTER FROM SPACE THE FACE OF CYDONIA, MARS OWN A ONE OF A KIND Image Size: 48' x 36.500'. The Eskimo is facing away from us and forms the face, with one arm being the nose. The huge rock formation in the center, which resembles a human head, is formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth. The picture shows eroded mesa-like landforms. Image shows a remnant massif located in the Cydonia region. When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is. This picture is one of many taken in the northern latitudes of Mars by the Viking 1 Orbiter in search of a landing site for Viking 2. As a reminder, each raw Viking Orbiter image is 1204 samples wide by 1056 lines high. Owing to the importance of the landing site search, and with a desire to provide the public with at least one familiar-looking landform amid the craters and. The original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, in grey scale, on July, 25 1976. A first photo of the Face on Mars was revealed to the public by NASA. What happened next truly represents the shadow side of Mercury Retrograde (Rx).

The actual images have not been processed other than conversion to GIF format. In fact, Mercury, Mars and Saturn were all together within 1-2 degrees during the first set of photos of the Face and Cydonia region in nearly 22 years.

This is another simple, effective illusion that uses negative and positive light to try to trick our minds.ĭo you see the face first or the Eskimo? When we look at the face, in profile, with its distinctive, black hairline, there is something disturbing about it, isn?t there? An almost Frankensteinian effect caused by the black lines on the face?s forehead, around its ear and its neck. The icons show the 'face' as seen in the raw data, but contrast enhanced for visibility.

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