Before long, to the dismay of astronomers worldwide, there was a firmly established pop-culture belief that there was a real gigantic human face on Mars, carved in perfect detail by aliens.Īs the decades wore on, better cameras took better images, finally culminating in the 2007 image taken by HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, with a super high resolution of about 30 centimeters per pixel. One of it most important distinguishing features, a nostril, was only one of many black dots that actually represent missing data in the image. But what they hadn’t anticipated was that some in the public thought it was actually an artificially carved human face, despite the accompanying explanation that it was just a hill that happened to have this funny resemblance to a face when the light was at a certain angle. It was a clear rendering of a human face! NASA engineers loved it they passed it around, put it out for publication, and had all sorts of fun with it. Among a number of similar hillocks and mesas in a region of Mars called Cydonia Mensae, one feature stood out. It was 1976, and Viking I was sending its latest images. There, in yet another series of photographs from Mars, is a distinct human face. But then, as it finishes printing the second page, your eye catches that long sheet of perforated printer paper folding into a pile on the floor, and you see something unbelievable. You’ve heard this all before and seen a million badly printed images. You’re startled, but annoyed and as it starts hammering out its latest data, you try to go back to sleep. You start to drowse off in your chair, when suddenly the teletype jumps to life with a loud mechanical bang. The coffee’s cold and, outside, the rain drums steadily against the window. Imagine yourself in a NASA control room, late at night. Today’s sponsor: This episode of 365 Days of Astronomy is sponsored by the Amateur Astronomers from Launceston Tasmania. He has appeared on numerous radio shows and television documentaries. A Silicon Valley computer scientist by trade, Brian now uses new media to promote critical thinking. Brian is also the author of two books based on the podcast, Skeptoid and Skeptoid II. Skeptoid has a weekly audience of 70,000 listeners. But photography, the perceptual phenomenon called pareidolia, and the Law of Large Numbers combine to say that it’s simply a natural hill.īio: Brian Dunning is the host and producer of the podcast Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena ( ), applying critical thinking to paranormal and pseudoscientific subjects promoted by the mass media. Some believe it’s proof of a Martian civilization. Max continues to talk about the ruins and the “split face” images and their relevance to figuring out what all of this means.Description: Today we look at the face on Mars in the Cydonia Mensae region. How did these ruins come to be related? Max theorizes that there was once a solar-system wide civilization that was wiped out 65 million years ago in a cataclysm and this super-civilization survived throughout history through religious traditions around the world and this is why we see so many similarities in so many remote areas of earth. This corresponds with many ruins on earth, especially some of the major sites in ancient Mesoamerica. By looking at these ruins interpretively, researchers claim that they were plotted out with cosmic reference specifically linking to Sirius, Orion and The Pleiades. From the orbiter we see in the photos what has been interpreted as a massive face and some supporting buildings including a huge 5-sided pyramid which is larger than the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan. Our first images from Mars come from the 1976 Viking mission. Max’s research is meticulous and extensive. In this episode to discuss this topic of the Mars-Mexico connection is Max Keijzik, author of the book: “ The Crux of Cydonia Truth, Light, & The Face on Mars. Today we will explore what many researchers claim to be ruins on the planet Mars and their possible connection to the cultures of ancient Mexico. There are others who believe, though, that a connection to off-world cultures can be found a little closer to home, as in our own solar system. Some authors and investigators have suggested that the seeds of these civilizations come from somewhere else and we have all heard of the ancient astronaut theories that claim that cultures like the Olmec and the Maya had origins from faraway stars. Certain elements of physical culture lead people to believe that there was once an ancient pre-flood super civilization that spanned the oceans and it included ancient Mexico. Much investigation has been done about Ancient Mexico’s connection to other ancient civilizations on earth.
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