Originally posted by BuzzingOn
Does anyone have a scale of how long and wide the "face" is, like in miles?

May 24, 2001 -- Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia.

There must have been a degree of surprise among mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on their monitors. But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.

A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation ... which resembles a human head ... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars.

It certainly did!

The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows -- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars -- evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars.

Originally posted by zorgon

Originally posted by outlaw2007 i'm convinced that there was once life on mars but not inteligent. if there was inteligent life on the planet at one time it was a long time ago and their long gone either left or died out and whatever remains were left of their culture have been worn away by time.

So what convinced yo? Do you have documents that you can share?

And why would all traces have been worn away by time? That is actually a pretty dumb statement considering the thousands of year old works of past civilizations on Earth that we are still finding buried beneath desert sands

And that section of the "face" did collapse. Anyone with even rudimentary geological knowledge can see that... Just look back a few posts to the Malin picture that I posted with the "Island" Just because it collapsed does not mean it was a construct, but it did collapse