text: The face on mars is thing more but a land formtion known as butte. In April 5, 1998 Global Surveyor took pictures of the Face and had raviled a natural land formation. thn again in April 8, 2001 an even more clearer shot af the face was taken again for to prove it was only a land formation and was then proven to a butte, land formations that are coomon in the American West.