text: NASA first released the photo of the newly-found 'Face' in 1976. These photos spread very quick, and theorists everywhere published books, movies, and more science fiction entertainment about 'The Face.' NASA new from the start the unusual photo was only of arock fromation similar to buttes and mesas, common landforms in the West Americas. While the scientists do address the fact that the landform appears as a face, it is only the shadows of an extra-terrestrial mesa.