text: When NASA first saw the "Face on Mars" they claimed they spotted what the text states, "the shadowy likeness of a human face." The image was found when they were snapping photos of possible landing sights for Viking 2, one of NASA's spacecrafts circling the region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. The passage later states, "But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia." The scientits even said it was just a landform. They stated that it has,"unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." The scientists are not saying it's a alien monument either. They are just saying people could petray it that way.