text: Also Is says in the story that "what the picture actaully shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mess--landforms common around the American West"(12). Garvin says "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho"(12). There is buttes and messas on Earth what makes conspiarcy therorists think that there can not be natrual ones on Mars to. The fact the conspiracy theorists actaully belive that aliens built the Face is a joke.