The history of Martian studies is filled with mysterious aspects

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Humanoid face mysteriously disappears

from Mars

 

 

08/24/2004 16:05

 

 

 

The history of

Martian studies is filled with mysterious aspects

On July 25, 1976 the US

spacecraft Viking-1 photographed an astounding formation on the surface

of Mars. The 1.5 kilometer-long object bore resemblance to woman's

face. The photograph produced a sensation in the whole world - almost

all newspapers and magazines of the world published the picture on

their pages, the image of the Martian face was on constant presence on

television.

Astronomers said the

image of

the face on the red planet was a wholly incidental trick of nature. The

face, however, was oriented on the Martian meridian, but it was

considered incidental too. Specialists from the Boston-based Analytic

Sciences created a 3-D image of the above-mentioned structure and

discovered the image of the 'humanoid face' on it indeed. Having

intensified the contrast of the shaded right side of the image,

specialists found the second 'eye' situated about 100 meters beneath

the 'nose.' To crown it all, there was something reminiscent of 'teeth'

too. According to the results of the analysis, specialists concluded

the anomalous formation could not be of the terrestrial origin.

Furthermore, engineers Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Malenaar found

another image of the face in the archives of Martian photographs. The

picture was taken with different lighting 35 days after the first

original image was taken. The detailed computer analysis proved the

peculiarities of the first picture and revealed new details as well.

One could see an 'eyeball,' a 'pupil' and 'teeth' on the sun-lit

'cheek.' The two engineers concluded that if the details of the stone

head were of the natural origin, the nature would have to be a

reasonable creature.

On June 25, 1995 the NASA

administration included the test photoshoot of the Martian face in the

program flight of Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The mission control

received the long-awaited photos on April 5th, 1998. The spacecraft

took pictures of the face from the height of 440 kilometers (in 1976

the images were taken from the height of 1,870 kilometers). To

everyone's great disappointment, the photos depicted only uneven

landscape - one could not see any facial outlines on them at all.

One might think NASA

officials

fabricated the shots - it could be the simplest explanation for the

whole matter. However, the history of Martian studies is filled with

mysterious aspects. One may recollect Martian 'channels,' for instance.

Scientists have been observing Martian channels for many years. It was

documented that hardly visible channels split into two or turned to

wide stripes. Astronomer Giovanni Sciaparelli, the discoverer of

channels on Mars, mentioned the Erinnis channel in his reports. The

channel vanished from Martian maps for a long period of time, although

it appeared on them again in 1941. Scientists have not found an

explanation to periodic changes of color on certain areas of Mars,

sudden dust storms, a series of inexplicable accidents that happened to

Martian rovers on their way to the planet, and mysterious flashes of

light (about 400 flashes were observed in 1894 when Mars neared Earth).

On December 8th 1951, Japanese astronomer Tsuneo Saheki saw a bright

spot near the Martian lake of Titonus. The spot was glimmering for five

minutes. Japanese scientists observed two of such flashes in 1954, four

of them were registered in 1958. It is not ruled out that the Martian

natural disasters ruined the image of the face on the planet.

 

 

 

 

 

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(Translated by: Dmitry

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