text: First of all, the landform looks like a mesa or butte from the American West. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASAs Mars Exploration Program, says "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." The author of this article says, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West." The Face is not made by aliens. It is just a landform the happend to look like a face.