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FILE: ARES1.TXT
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AUTHOR: Martin E. Arant
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DATE: 03-15-89
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SUBJECT: Mars Face, Project Cydonia
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SUBMITTED BY: Martin E. Arant
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In 1976, while the nation was celebrating its 200th birthday,
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Viking I, a US space probe entered orbit around the Planet Mars.
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Like a giant scythe, its television cameras slowly cut an ever
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widening photographic swatch around the planet. Forty million
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miles away, in Pasadena, California, the images from another
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world built up line by line on the monitors of the Jet Propulsion
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Laboratories. It was on orbit thirty five, when the spacecraft
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was over an area known as Cydonia, that possibly the single most
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important photograph in the history of the human race was taken.
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A perfectly formed human face, starring straight up into the
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eye of the Viking camera, starring up from the ancient sands
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of Mars!
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The reaction of the planetary scientists and geologists at NASA
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was quite predictable and understandable. The data already
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collected on Mars from the previous Mariner mission showed the
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planet to be a harsh and withered world, totally unable to
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support any complex life forms. Even though there was ample
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evidence that large amounts of liquid water had once flowed over
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its surface, even the most optimistic scientist couldn't
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imagine this "warm epoch" ever having lasted long enough for
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anything but the simplest life forms to have evolved.
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It is, therefore, not surprising that the appearance of the face
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was reduced to the simplest explanation; "A trick of lighting and
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shadows." This turned out to be more than just an idle comment,
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for it became the battle cry of NASA for over 10 years. Every time
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an inquiry was made regarding the face, NASA responded with this
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one-liner.
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Had it not been for a couple of open-minded researchers, this
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photograph would probably have ended up filed away with thousands
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of other nondescript photographs taken by the Viking orbiter.
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Slowly, very slowly at first, the evidence begin to build,
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culminating last August in the proof that this enigma is NOT "a
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trick of lighting and shadow." Even NASA, that most infallible
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of government agencies, has been forced to retreat from their
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previous statement. Their open ridicule of the scientists involved
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in researching this phenomena has turned into embarrassed silence.
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Discoveries made during the past few years seem to indicate that
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the face, along with four other "artificial looking" formations in
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the immediate area form a geometric and mathematical complex. Does
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this prove that ruins of an ancient civilization has been found on
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the surface of Mars? The answer is absolutely NOT! Aside from what
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you may have read in the tabloids, none of the scientists and
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researchers involved in this project have ever stated that this
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complex IS artificial. What is becoming very obvious is this.
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Something is very wrong in Cydonia Mensae. Either our understanding
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of Martian geology and mathematical relationships is seriously flawed
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or...
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The purpose of this section is twofold. First, to collect and
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disseminate information pertaining to the discoveries made in Cydonia
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and second, to build the grass root political support to make certain
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that NASA is FORCED (by law, if necessary) to reexamine
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this site during the Mars Orbiter mission in 1992.
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NOTE: This section is NOT about paranormal phenomena. It is NOT about
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UFOs, alien abductions, or ancient astronauts. Not that it is our
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intention to dismiss these phenomena but they simply don't belong
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in this section. There is always the tendency to "speculate" on
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the phenomena at Cydonia but we feel that is putting the cart before
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the horse. The first and only goal right now has to be the verification
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of the data by the scientific community and the commitment by
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NASA to re-photograph this site!
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