text: When NASA's Viking 1 caught a picture of the Face while it was simply finding a region for its Viking 2 to land, mission controllers may have been amazed or mildly frightened to see this on their monitors. This discovery was short lived because scientists such as myself figured it as just another Martian mesa, which is common around Cydonia, a region on Mars where the Viking spotted the legendary Face. The first photos had bad quality, the best photo having 43 meters per pixel. On April 5, 1998, the MGS flew over Cydonia for the frist time, Micahel Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture 10 times sharper than the original Viking photos. Those who have grown curious to this discovery were upset to only see that THe Face really was only a natural landform. Howver that day they took the photos was a cloudy day on Mars. And so, more disappointment was caused when on April 8, 2001-a cloudless day on Cydonia-MGS took another chance and took another photo. The pixels in the latest image spans 1.56 meters, which is much more better than the original photos from the Viking.