text: Now you might say that the face found on Mars is accually an alien monument. However, the monument wasn't actually made by aliens, it was made by natural events. According to the article, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. `It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,` says Garvi. `That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the ame height as the Face on Mar.`" There could have been a volcano that erupted and the lava from it could have hardened forming the face that is on Mars.