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    The face on Mars taken July 25th, 1976 by NASA Viking 1 Orbiter
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    The face on Mars taken July 25th, 1976 by NASA Viking 1 Orbiter

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    1. NuncioBitis on

      top middle – face
      just beneath and to the right – a frog face
      just below and further to the right – an angry ducky face
      bottom right – flattened Yoda
      I can make shit up too!

    4. badcatdog42 on

      The most popular Mars image ever was the Mars Bunny.

      Oh please please NASA show us more pictures of the Mars Bunny!!!!!

      AKA parachute cloth.

    6. artwarrior on

      About 25 years ago I went to a talk where Richard Hoagland, a former NASA engineer( edit : no formal education beyond high school )wrote a book about the face and I purchased his book out of curiosity.

      As a 20 year old, I was open minded, wanted to believe but it seemed to me like when I stared at my popcorn ceiling and saw faces.

    8. VaguelyArtistic on

      I miss Art Bell. It was like sitting around the campfire listening to weird and scary stories. Mel’s Hole was much more fun than “ANTIFA is everywhere.”

    10. photoguy423 on

      Wasn’t there a story about Carl Sagan wanting the image manipulated to look more human before releasing it to the press?

    11. Krirby2 on

      I think there was a whole X-Files episodes around this image. Funny how colorful and more high resolution images made these dissapear from the limelight.

    13. Vindepomarus on

      Anybody who thinks that charlatan Graham Hankock isn’t an outright liar, needs to look into his books about this mountain.

    14. SodaPopin5ki on

      In Futurama, they made a reference to another “structure” on the other side of the planet, the Ass of Mars.

    15. refreshing_username on

      Anyone else remember this showing up on the front page of the National Enquirer in the grocery store checkout line?

    17. Saidagive on

      To be honest the latest images still show pretty good symmetry. It looks like one side just got blasted by winds and sand storms

    18. ZobeidZuma on

      I still have the book by Randolfo Rafael Pozos, **The Face on Mars: Evidence for a Lost Civilization?** It was published in 1986, and I think I remember some related article appearing in Analog magazine.

      It’s fantastic (in multiple senses), as he interprets not only a face but also a nearby “city” and a “fort” and pyramids, amphitheater, summer solstice alignment, etc. It runs 155 pages.