text: First off, NASA has discovered that the "face" is just a butte or mesa commonly found in the American West. In the article it states, "'It reminds me moost of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,'says Garvin". This shows that NASA's cheif scientist for it's Mars Exploration Program knows it is just like a butte or mesa. This means that a person who sees things like this on a daily basis knows that it is just shadows making a land form look like something else. If a cheif scientist knows that it is just a landform than that means that we should have no problem understanding what it is.