Why not send the next probe to photograph and investigate the famous “face” on Mars?
NASA has already determined that the “face on Mars” is a natural land form. NASA’s Viking 1 Orbiter spacecraft “photographed” &rarr this region in the northern latitudes of Mars on July 25, 1976 while searching for a landing site for the Viking 2 Lander. The speckled appearance of the image is due to missing data, called bit errors, caused by problems in transmission of the photographic data from Mars to Earth. You may view “comparison photos” &rarr of the “Face on Mars” taken by Mars Global Surveyor in 1998.
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