Is the face on Mars genuine?

Question

Recent pictures of mars show the face of a man in the landscape. Is this real or just a con simular to the loch ness monster to stoke up public support for the venture.

Answer 1

Yes its true, but its not a face of a man. It is a combination of the surface of a rock and the light and shadow

Answer 2

I think its real enough, but its not manmade.  Its just the shape of the terrain and, with certain shadows, it looks similar to a face.  Pure coincidence.  Its like seeing shapes in clouds.

Answer 3

It is real, but not recent. It is a hill, which looks on a special Viking spacecraft photo from 1976 like a human face. Later photographs by modern probes made it look less human.

It was just a coincidence, just like things you sometimes see in clouds.

Answer 4

yes its real

Answer 5

They are far from recent.

You're talking about the face on Cydonia?  It's not real, how many times do I have to answer this question?

Trick of the shadows.  The same place was photographed again to reveal no face, just a rock.

Answer 6

it's a rock.

you might look up pareidolia some time.

Answer 7

The object is real, it is a mountain that has been eroded by wind and sand.

It only appears as a face to us, when the lighting is right.  Humans have always seen familiar things in random patterns - do you remember every watching clouds in the sky when you were a kid and seeing bunnies and horses and maybe a bird in the shape of the cloud?

And the constellations in our night sky supposedly looked like familiar objects to the ancients that named them.

Besides Orion and Scorpius, I don't see those shapes in any of the constellations - I do not see a bear in Ursa Major, or a ram in Aries.

And recent is subjective, I guess.

The first photograph of "the Face of Mars" was taken by Voyager in 1976.

But after analysis of the higher resolution Mars Global Surveyor data in the late 1990's, it is a natural Martian hill, and the face isn't as visible.  Its very like Shiaparalli and Lowell claiming to see canals on Mars, but sharper images with better telescopes revealed there are no canals, just light and dark areas.

Answer 8

It is most definitely not a fake.  That formation (be it artificial or natural) does exist on mars in the Cydonia region.  If you're interested look up a man named Richard C. Hoagland.

Answer 9

The face on mars is made up of a old mountain range the sun casts shadows off its peaks. this gives you the appearance of a face on its surface.

Answer 10

I believe it's a real picture but whether it's a real face is debatable.  The human mind will automatically try to make sense of random images and will especially see faces where there isn't one.  

Most people have seen faces in flooring designs, water stains, clouds, etc.  It's our brains automatic reaction.  We're social creatures so we seek out other humans so we see faces everywhere.  

I think this explains a lot of things, the shroud of Turin, all the sightings of the Virgin Mary in a tree, shadows, potato chips, etc.

Answer 11

The rocky outcropping is real.  The "face" is just an illusion caused by low photo resolution and shadows.  Check the link, below.

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Answer 12

It was just shadows.  The original picture that showed the "face" was taken at a certain angle, relative to the position of the sun shining on Mars' surface, and it cast the shadows just in the right way so that the "face" appeared.  

More spacecraft were sent to take more pictures of the "face" and in subsequent photographs it was apparent that it was just a rock formation.  

Also, do note that the human brain is hardwired to "see" faces.

Answer 13

It's niether.  It's just a natural part of the landscape that we percieve as being a 'face' because of the angle of the photo.  

FYI:  There's no "Man on the Moon", either, nor is there a Big Dipper.  These are just names....

Answer 14

1.  It is not a recent picture.  It looked like a face on old pictures that had less resolution (more blurry pictures).  On recent pictures, it looks like a mountain.

2.  The face itself is not real, it only shows when the sun is just right (to get the shadows just right) and when you use lower resolution (less quality).

3. It is a con used to stoke up support for web sites (and books and videos) by people who insist that it is real and a sign that there were intelligent beings on Mars at one time.

Answer 15

Yes, we are not alone in this vast universe.

Answer 16

Yeah it's real like the Double decker bus they found on the moon!

Answer 17

nonono,

I believe that it's some commercial idea, as you know the movie misson to mars has the idea, posters arent cheap either

Answer 18

It's real.

Answer 19

No, it's just a rock formation that looks a bit likea face at certain angles.