text: When Mars Glodal Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time in 1998, a picture was taken and a natural landformation revealed that there was no alien monument after all. According to the article, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mas Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, reavealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." That means that the face found on Mars wasn't actually an alien monument. Just a natural landform. When the monument was taken on a sharper picture, the alien monument was actually just a natural formation.