text: Scientist have done so much background research on this topic of the "face" to prove that their statement is true. The scientists statement was that it was another Martian mesa. Martian mesa's are very common in the Cydonia area. Only that this one had unusual shadows that made it look like a face. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Only to reveal that they were correct, it was just a natural landform. What the picture actually showed was butte or mesa, which are landforms that are common around the American West.