Take a gander at this great Mars pic and tell me what you see...


Shot at 2007-03-13

There's the Pharoah's head, a skull to the left of it and WHAT is staring down at the skull?

(or is it only me and my astronomer buddy who see something else?)

[edit on 24/4/08 by masqua]

I see a ..... a lion. I'm not good at these things though. I've tried and tried to do this on the moon pics but usually something has to be pointed out.

I can really see it on the smaller version of the picture.

What do you see?

That's what I see too... a huge lion's head glaring down at the skull.

It's easier to see as a thumbnail, but the big pic is good too (after a while).

I was so impressed with it that I started a painting of the landscape.

Cool!

Took me a second.
Just to make sure though. You're talking about almost half of the photo right?

Upper left, looking down and to the right.
It was the comment about the thumbnail that finally allowed my eyes to see it.
You're gonna have fun with that landscape.
A little artistic license, I hope?

Yep, I see a lion......is the golden color natural, or was it added to hi-light the area?? ( right down to the whiskers and a toothie!)

Originally posted by masqua
(or is it only me and my astronomer buddy who see something else?)

I'm not seeing it, unless you mean "like seeing faces in clouds." Then I see the 'face on Mars' plateau and a vaguely skull-shaped plateau (shape due mostly to the position of the shadows) and a huge cartoon cat-ish face.

Or did you mean something else?

[edit on 13-3-2007 by Byrd]

Damn dude

Thats a very nice painting, your use of color is really entrancing.

Top marks my man

masqua that is awsome! Do you think there is a niche for this type of painting? Maybe some rich conspiracy theorists can commission you! Ooo I know! Ill be working within 12 months (hopefully sooner) and you can paint me one and Ill pay ya!

Love the jaquar, Dae.

The exploration of other worlds/moons is going to make for an exciting time for all of us, but it is also going to be rife with the same methods for recognition that all explorers use.

We look on the surface of Mars and we see a shattered landscape scoured and shaped by blowing dust much like the mesas and rock formations we see in the American southwest. When the first Hopi explorers came out of the underworld, I would bet they did the same thing as Europeans would do millenia later... they looked around them and noted the shape of the natural landscape and said things like; "Look, here the mountain is shaped like a sleeping giant!" and in that way registered their landmarks so that they knew where they were in relation to other places they'd noted before.

The exploration of space will be no diferent. We began it all by marking the stars by seeing in them a lion, or fish, a hunter or even a woman pouring water from a pitcher.

Some human habits never die and stay on to become part of the scientific method. We are feeling our way by searching for guideposts.
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[edit on 17/3/07 by masqua]

i see it now, it looks really kwl

Am I the only one here who cannot see the Lion? I see the classic face on Mars and the skull, but for the life of me, the Lion is invisible.