What do you think of Face on Mars?

Question

I understand that we has humans have a nack to find faces out of unusual things and that the Face on Mars is just a low quality picture and its just a mound but if u look close enough you can see the face is still there in the 2001 pictures. I mean if the face was ONCE there you would believe after millions and millions of years it would of changed a little due to when mars had water there must of been erosion.

Answer 1

It is just a natural rock formation that looks a little like a face if the light hits it at just the right angle and you don't look too closely.

Answer 2

ive seen a documentary on mars, i'ts not really a face but a bunch of rocks, we have alot of things like that that happen here they are everywere. =) also a few months ago they took another photo of the same place and it looks different nothing like a face at all (all to do with lighting)

Answer 3

Of course the "Face on Mars" is still there in 2001. It was first spotted back in the 70's and  30 years in Mars's extremely dry atmosphere is hardly enough time for wind erosion to change it in any significant way. Even when the wind speed on the martian surface is hundreds of miles per hour, the actual *force* of the wind might only be equal to a 30 mph wind in Earth's much denser atmosphere.

"...and no I do not mean it eroided from 70s to current day I mean that you can still see the face on mars if you look closly enough so I am suggesting that it was once there when Life was on mars millions of years ago..."

First, you're making a couple of *huge* assumptions --(1) there was life on Mars millions of years ago;(2) the "Face on Mars" is artificial; (3) the life form on Mars was advanced enough to create a very large sculpture.

"...if the face was ONCE there you would believe after millions and millions of years it would of changed a little due to when mars had water there must of been erosion..." Well of course it would have changed, but I can't see the point you're trying to make with that.

Answer 4

the face on mars is a trick of shadows and lights. it would still be there since no erosion on the planet besides wind which if you were there you probably wouldn't notice it was there.

Answer 5

Maybe all that erosion over millions of years is what has created the shape we see now.  Maybe it was a simple rounded mountain millions of years ago, and erosion by wind and sand (and possibly water) created the shape that people see as a Face.

People see faces in clouds and in their pancakes, they see Elvis's face in a spaghetti sauce stain.  So seeing a Face on Mars in the shadows of an eroded hill isn't that surprising.

Answer 6

i am actually quite fascinated but yet i am 100 percent sure there is life on other planets i mean all thesee "could this be" "is this?" i mean who cares there is life on other planets so what.. also why do you think the moviee "mission to mars" was based on that

Answer 7

The face on Mars was first photographed by Viking I in 1976. It was discovered by two NASA scientist at JPL, DiPietro and Molenaar.

It was latter photographed by ESA in 3D. The face is even more stunning in this photo than in the original.

But it isn't just the face that make this area, Cydonia, fascinating place. But rather the D&M pyramids, the wall and the fortress.

Another fascinating fact is that the face and the pyramids on Mars is aligned identically to the sphinx and Giza pyramids of Egypt.

Answer 8

pareidolia at work. nothing more.

to me it just looks like a rock...

Answer 9

Light & shadow, nothing more.

Answer 10

It is a survival mechanism that we identify the face of an object/being. Think about it, everything that has a mouth has some form of a weapon with its teeth. Our brain is constantly looking to identify faces in everything we see, so we can make sure to protect ourselves. For once our brain isn't trying to kill us, or so it seems.

Answer 11

oh hum.

Do you have a picture from millions of years ago so we can check the change (or lack thereof)?

Yes we do have a knack for finding patterns even where it does not exist.  In fact, most mammals do, simply because our eyes, as cameras, are very poor instruments.  Most of the work to interpret the shabby images, is done in the brain.

If you think that is bad, cats and dogs are a lot worst.  Their eyesight is adapted to identify moving shapes.  That is why many natural preys (e.g. rabbits) will stand still without moving when they think a predator is around (they will eventually run away when the predator gets too close; after all, dogs and cats also use their ears and nose).

If you want to see a much better face, go check Google Earth at this position:

50 00 36 N  110 06 46 W

It is called the Indian Head.

You have to go down to a height of 1500 m (3600 ft) or so to really appreciate it.

And we know that Earth not only had water for millions of years, but it still does.  Therefore, this face (according to your approach) should not exist anymore.

And look, he's wearing an earphone (the wire leads down to his iPod).  How did the aliens know millions of years ago, that you and I would see this iPod just a few years after the iPod was invented.

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Elvis in spaghetti sauce?  Where?