text: Lastly, the formation is just a natural landform called a "mesa." The author says, "Scientist 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." In comparison, paragraph 12 claims, "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 Garvin. 'That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.'" Both of these quotes tell us that scientific research proves that the Face on Mars is fake, and that it is actually a mesa.