text: Also, in Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view," said Garvin. "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo, So I think it'similar, the picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."