text: So we photographed the face as soon as we could get a good shot at it. On April 5, 1998 the first time that the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia, Michael and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture that was ten times sharper than the Viking did. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first went on the web. Saddly enough it revealed that it was a natural landform. People were sad to see that it was not a alien moument after all, but some people still thought that it was still an alien moument.