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SUBJECT: FACE ON MARS FILE: UFO1744
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Article 955 (25 more) in alt.alien.visitors:
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From: jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu (James Roger Black)
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Subject: Re: Face on Mars (Was: Life in this solar system?)
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Date: 12 May 92 23:45:24 GMT
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In article <c3p902Mz11ZY01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, jjs40@cd.amdahl.com
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(John Sullivan) writes:
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... a lot of erroneous statements about the Martian Face. For example:
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|> You should be aware of the fact that the picture of the face on Mars is
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|> actually quite an old picture. Pre-Viking, I think.
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No. There are two pictures, 35A72 and 70A13, both taken by Viking Orbiter 1
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in the summer of 1976.
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|> The "face" and "pyramid"
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|> in the photo were not even noticed until the late-80's when "special
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|> computers and image analysis" were applied to the photo.
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No. The Face was discovered almost immediately by the Viking project staff
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and pointed out to reporters at a press briefing shortly thereafter. It
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was dismissed at the time as a "trick of lighting and shadow" by a staff
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member who claimed (falsely) that another picture had been taken of the same
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site "a few hours later" and that "it all went away". (In fact, there
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was no such picture.)
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|> Once upon a time you might actually be able to believe what you saw in a
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|> photograph. However, as early as 1980 there existed computer image
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|> processing software and hardware good enough to make a picture of the New
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|> York skyline with the buildings rearranged and fool experts with it.
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No fancy "image processing software and hardware" are necessary to see the
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Face; it appears quite clearly on the original NASA prints.
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|> So, my point is basically that, when "faces" and "pyramids" start showing up
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|> in droves on everything from the surface of the Sun to Cher's buttocks --
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|> DON'T BELIEVE IT!
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When "faces" and "pyramids" start showing up on official NASA planetary
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photos, I take them seriously. Maybe you should, too. Start with Mark
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Carlotto's article "Digital imagery analysis of unusual Martian surface
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features" in the 15 May 88 issue of Applied Optics. Then go on to Richard
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Hoagland's book "The Monuments of Mars". Then come back and tell us it's
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all bunk--it you still can.
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Roger Black jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu
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End of article 955 (of 980)--what next? [^Nnpq]
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THE "FACE ON MARS"
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There really is a big rock on Mars that looks remarkably like a humanoid
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face. It appears in two different frames of Viking Orbiter imagery:
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35A72 (much more facelike in appearance, and the one more often
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published, with the Sun 10 degrees above western horizon) and 70A13
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(with the Sun 27 degrees from the west).
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Science writer Richard Hoagland has championed the idea that the Face is
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artificial, intended to resemble a human, and erected by an
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extraterrestrial civilization. Most other analysts concede that the
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resemblance is most likely accidental. Other Viking images show a
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smiley-faced crater and a lava flow resembling Kermit the Frog elsewhere
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on Mars. There exists a Mars Anomalies Research Society (sorry, don't
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know the address) to study the Face.
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The Mars Observer mission will carry an extremely high-resolution
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camera, and better images of the formation will hopefully settle this
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question in a few years. In the meantime, speculation about the Face is
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best carried on in the altnet group alt.alien.visitors, not sci.space or
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sci.astro.
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V. DiPeitro and G. Molenaar, *Unusual Martian Surface Features*, Mars
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Research, P.O. Box 284, Glen Dale, Maryland, USA, 1982. [Apparently the
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first lengthy consideration of the Face published. Does anybody know
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what it costs?]
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R.R. Pozos, *The Face of Mars*, Chicago Review Press, 1986. [Account of
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an interdisciplinary speculative conference Hoagland organized to
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investigate the Face]
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R.C. Hoagland, *The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever*,
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North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, USA, 1987. [Elaborate
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discussion of evidence and speculation that formations near the Face
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form a city]
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M.J. Carlotto, "Digital Imagery Analysis of Unusual Martian Surface
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Features," *Applied Optics*, 27, pp. 1926-1933, 1987. [Extracts
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three-dimensional model for the Face from the 2-D images]
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M.J. Carlotto & M.C. Stein, "A Method of Searching for Artificial
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Objects on Planetary Surfaces," *Journal of the British Interplanetary
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Society*, Vol. 43 no. 5 (May 1990), p.209-216. [Uses a fractal image
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analysis model to guess whether the Face is artificial]
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B. O'Leary, "Analysis of Images of the `Face' on Mars and Possible
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Intelligent Origin," *JBIS*, Vol. 43 no. 5 (May 1990), p. 203-208.
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[Lights Carlotto's model from the two angles and shows it's consistent;
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shows that the Face doesn't look facelike if observed from the surface]
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