When NASA scientists analyzed the structure's height and dimensions, they found that it actually resembled a rock formation here on Earth - the flat-topped mesa commonly found throughout the Southwest. By shooting the formation from different angles, it was able to put together a 3-D image. The rock formation looked so similar to a face how could it not have been designed. So in 2001, the Mars Surveyor returned to take even higher resolution photos. Richard Hoagland claimed the image had been intentionally enhanced so much that the face disintegrated. However, those who were convinced that this was a real image of a face were not appeased. In these more detailed pictures, what had appeared to be eyes, nose and a mouth vanished into nothing more than what scientists had originally surmised - a natural rock formation. The Face on Mars JThis picture is one of many taken in the northern latitudes of Mars by the Viking 1 Orbiter in search of a landing site for Viking 2. In April 1998, the Mars Orbiter captured a picture 10 times sharper than the original photos.
Once photographic imaging techniques had improved, they went in for a closer shot. Though scientists didn't believe the image captured of Mars back in the 1970s showed a real face, they did want to get a better look at it. The "face" measured nearly two miles across and had what looked like deep-set eyes and a clearly delineated nose and mouth. While the craft was snapping pictures of a region of the planet called Cydonia, Viking 1 captured what looked like an enormous human face staring up at it.
Then in 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was scouting out a potential Mars landing site for its sister spacecraft, Viking 2, when it came across something unexpected. In response to all of this postulating about life on Mars, scientists would explain that the atmosphere on the red planet couldn't support life as we know it. Wells' tentacled, squidlike aliens in "The War of the Worlds," to Looney Tunes' Roman helmet- and skirt-wearing Marvin the Martian.
Books, television shows and movies have all arrived at their own interpretations of what Martians might look like, from H.G. We earthlings have always been fascinated with the idea of finding life on other planets, and we've been captivated particularly with the possibility that life exists on one of our closest celestial neighbors - Mars.
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