text: Mission controllers from Mars Global Surveyor prepared to take another look at the Face on Mars. On April 8, 2001, the spacecraft flew over Cydonia again and captured a photo as clear as day. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said," Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." This photograph showed that the Face on Mars is equivalent to landforms found around the American West.